Saint John the Evangelist is the
Church of England parish church of
Penge (now in the
London Borough of Bromley), in the
Diocese of Rochester,
Greater London. At the time of its erection, Penge was in
Surrey and had been an
exclave of Battersea. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects
Edwin Nash &
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. 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.[2] It has been
Grade II listed since 1990.[3]
The early funding of the church came from
John Dudin Brown who was a Thames wharfinger.[4] The organist and choir master from 1872 to 1903 was the composer
Arthur Carnall (1852–1904).[5]
^John Newman. West Kent and the Weald. The “Buildings of England” Series, First Edition, Sir
Nikolaus Pevsner and
Judy Nairn, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.433.