Mitcham Methodist Church
Mitcham Methodist Church
Mitcham Methodist Church on Cricket Green is a Grade II post-war chapel of 1958–59 by Edward Mills and Partners, with engineers Ove Arup and Partners.
- Location
- Mitcham , Greater London
- Country
- England
- County
- Greater London
- City / town
- Mitcham
- Address
- Mitcham Methodist Church, Cricket Green, Mitcham, Greater London, CR4 4LB
- Postcode
- CR4 4LB
- Built
- 1958–59
- Architect
- Edward Mills and Partners; Ove Arup and Partners (engineers)
- Denomination
- Methodist Church
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Post-war Modern
- Materials
- Reinforced concrete frame, pale brick infill, folded slab roof, York stone
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
A Fair Green Methodist church of 1909 was destroyed in the Blitz of 1940. Mills, the leading post-war Methodist church architect, grouped chapel, hall and classrooms around a courtyard looking onto the green. The chapel’s exposed concrete frame of seven-by-four bays carries a folded slab roof that continues as a covered walkway; the east end is clad in York stone. Interior fittings largely survive. The building featured in Mills’s book The Modern Church (1956) and in G. E. Kidder Smith’s The New Churches of Europe (1964). Listed in 2010 after local conservation pressure, it was refurbished and rededicated on 15 October 2016.