Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England

Church of England

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 parish church of Penge

Penge

Penge is a suburb of London in the London Borough of Bromley. It is located south east of Charing Cross.-History:Penge was once a small town, which was recorded under the name Penceat in a Saxon deed dating from 957...

, Kent

Kent

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, in the Diocese of Rochester, Greater London

Greater London

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. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects Edwin Nash

Edwin Nash

Edwin Nash FRIBA was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. Most of his commissions were churches. He worked with architect John Nash Round) on St. John the Evangelist, Penge . Thereafter he worked alone. He proposed Joseph Fogerty to be a...

 & J. N. Round. Later in 1861, Nash alone added the gabled aisles, and in 1866 the transepts. The Pevsner Buildings of England series guides describe it as "Rock-faced ragstone. West tower and stone broach spire

Broach spire

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. Geometrical tracery, treated in Nash’s quirky way. The best thing inside is the open timber roofs, those in the transepts especially evocative, eight beams from all four directions meeting in mid air.

The church is obscured in domineering Penge by the distant tower farther south on Beckhenham Road of the Fortress Romanesque-looking Congregational church

Congregational Church, Penge

The Congregational Church is the Congregational church in Penge in the London Borough of Bromley located on Penge High Street between Sainsburys and Kenilworth Road. It was built 1912 to designs by P. Morley Horder "with passage aisles and clerestory. Shafts on large, excellently carved corbels."...

, built 1912 to designs by P. Morley Horder with passage aisles and clerestory. Shafts on large, excellently carved corbels.