---
title: "St Margaret the Queen, Streatham Hill"
description: "Located in Streatham Hill, Greater London. Built Nave 1899–1900; transepts and chancel 1906–08. Diocese of Southwark. Grade II. Early English with Arts and Crafts fittings style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Greater London","Streatham Hill","Grade II","Arts and Crafts","Rowland Plumbe","W D Caroe"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-margaret-queen-streatham-hill"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:49:50.051Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:34:28.928Z"
location: "Streatham Hill, Greater London"
country: "England"
county: "Greater London"
town: "Streatham Hill"
address: "Barcombe Avenue, Streatham Hill, Greater London, SW2 3BY"
postcode: "SW2 3BY"
built: "Nave 1899–1900; transepts and chancel 1906–08"
architect: "Rowland Plumbe; east end by Plumbe and Frank Morrish Harvey; chancel fittings by W D Caroe"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Margaret"]
diocese: "Southwark"
grade: "II"
style: "Early English with Arts and Crafts fittings"
materials: "Red brick with stone dressings; high-pitched tiled roofs; sandstone nave piers"
website: "https://smtqhub.org/"
openingHours: "Monday to Sunday 9am to 8pm. Free on street parking with restriction between 11am to 12noon."
parish: "Streatham Hill St Margaret"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1249571"
gridReference: "TQ 307 727"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets in church"
---

# St Margaret the Queen, Streatham Hill

St Margaret the Queen is a Grade II church on Barcombe Avenue, Streatham Hill, in the Diocese of Southwark, built in two phases from 1899 to 1908 at the centre of Rowland Plumbe’s Leigham Court estate.

## Overview

Historic England lists a tall red-brick church with stone dressings: a nave with octagonal west turrets and spirelets, low pent aisles, north and south gabled porches, a low canted west baptistery, tall gabled transepts, and a chancel with a short gabled Lady Chapel to the south and organ chamber to the north. Roofs are high-pitched and tiled, with a bell-turret at the crossing. The interior has a five-bay nave with piers of new red sandstone and a timber roof with ogee-curved braces. The sanctuary is marble-lined with a mosaic floor. A wood reredos dated 1909, possibly Flemish, has panels of the Crucifixion, Christ in Majesty, saints and bishops.

The Church Heritage Record and the parish history record the nave begun in 1899 (date stone in the west wall) and completed in 1900, with the east end of 1906–08 by Plumbe and Frank Morrish Harvey. W. D. Caröe designed richly carved timber fittings for the chancel and Lady Chapel. The parish church site describes an Early English building with Arts and Crafts influences. The church is open Monday to Sunday 9am to 8pm and has accessible toilets.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1249571](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1249571)
- [St Margaret the Queen](https://smtqhub.org/)