Church Stanstead Road Forest Hill

FOREST-HILL - A new church was recently opened in the Stansted Road.  The style adopted is a Byzantine manner of Gothic, and it is built entirely of stone and ceiled with wood. The church will accommodate 350 persons, and the total cost, including an organ, was about £4,000. Mr Henry Fuller was the architect.

FOREST HILL - The new Congregational Chapel on the Stanstead Road, near Catford Bridge, was opened on the 2nd inst. It is a Gothic building, somewhat after the Byzantine type, and will accommodate about 500 persons on the ground floor, the internal dimensions being 74ft. long, by *5 feet wide, and 37ft. high in the centre. The walls are built of Nutfield stone, set random, and pointed with blue mortar. Bath stone being used for the windows, doorways, string courses, and copings; and Portland for the front steps. The ceil is waggon-headed in form, divided into parts by the principal rafters, purlins, etc., and is boarded diagonally, and varnished; the centre board of each panel being ornamented with various designs stencilled in oil. The roof trusses are strengthened by cast-iron ornamental arched ribs finished ultramarine; some portions being relieved with vermillion and gilding. The pewing is open, of selected yellow deal sized, and twice varnished, but not stained. The total cost of the building is £3,150. Mr. Fuller, of Finchley-place was the architect, and Messrs Staines and Son of Great St. Helens, the builders. [Building News 12 April 1867 page ]

Reference    Building News 3 May 1867 page 313
Reference    Builder 30 June 1866 - tenders
Reference    Congregational Year Book for 1867 page 357