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CRANLEY GARDENS , SW7

English Heritage Reference:	203727
RBKC Reference:	55/42
Property:	CHURCH OF ST PETER (ARMENIAN CHURCH)
Street:	CRANLEY GARDENS , SW7
Date:	07/11/1984
Grade:	II*
Grouped:	GV
Description:	Church. 1866-7, designed and built by the office of C J Freake, with additions by W DCarOe and others, principally of 1907-9 and 1922-3. Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Decorated Gothic style. Tower in north-west corner, with three-stage broach steeple. Vestries and hall on north side behind vicarage, by Caroe, 1907-9. Interior is cruciform with no& and south aisles and transepts, apsidal cast end. Four-bay nave arcade to crossing arch with clerestorey having alternate pairs of quatrefoilheaded and trefoil-headed lights; triple arches flanking transepts, and chancel arch to sanctuary. Nave walls originally polychrome brick, now whitewashed; west gallery by Caroe, 1909. Choir, under crossing and sanctuary altered and embellished by Caroe and Passmore, 1922-3,' with dormer lights, and reredos. sedilia and canopy work richly carved by Nathaniel Hitch. Organ case on south side and gallery in North transept by Caroe. Morning chapel off north transept by Caroe, 1907-9, with lierne vault and carved figures by Hitch and Harold Whitaker, and Cosmad-style floor. Oak pulpit by J S Alder, 1902. Stained glass by many hands, notably clerestorey windows by Mary Lowndes, 1904-6 St. Peter's was built by C j Freake as an estate church for his building developments on the Smith�s Charity Estate, complementing his previous St Paul's, Onslow Square (q.v.). Source: Survey of London, vol.41, 1983, pp.114-17.
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