St Margaret's Church, Putney

St Margaret's Church, Putney.

St Margaret's Church is in Putney Park Lane, Putney. It was designed by W. Allen Dixon in around 1872.

History

In 1872, The Building News and Engineering Journal recorded that W. Allen Dixon was acting as architect for Colonel Alexander Croll in alterations to Granard Park (or Lodge), Putney Park Lane, Roehampton, and the construction of a new church in its grounds.^[1] St Margaret's is the resulting church. It was originally a Baptist chapel but it later became the Anglican St Margaret's.^[2]

Gallery

Interior view.
Rear view.
Main entrance.
Stained glass window.
List of ministers and incumbents.

References

↑ "Trade News. Tenders." The Building News and Engineering Journal, Vol. 22, January-June 1872, p. 48.
↑ Richardson, Kenneth. (2002) The "Twenty-Five" Churches of the Southwark Diocese: An inter-war campaign of church-building. London: The Ecclesiological Society. p. 112. ISBN 0946823154

External links

Media related to St Margaret's church, Putney at Wikimedia Commons

Churches in Wandsworth

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	All Saints, Wandsworth St Mary, Battersea St Mary the Virgin, Putney St Nicholas, Tooting Graveney

Anglican daughter churches	Ascension of the Lord, Battersea All Saints, Putney Common Holy Trinity, Roehampton St Anne, Wandsworth St Margaret, Putney St Mark, Battersea Rise

Other denominations	Putney Methodist Church Sacred Heart, Battersea St John's Polish Church, Putney St Joseph, Roehampton St Mary, Clapham St Thomas a Becket, Wandsworth Werter Road Baptist Church West Side Church, Wandsworth

Coordinates: 51°27′33″N 0°14′04″W / 51.459100°N 0.234439°W / 51.459100; -0.234439

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