Avondale Square Estate is a housing estate in Bermondsey, South East London adjacent to the Old Kent road. It was constructed between 1958 and 1962 and is the largest of

City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the historic centre and constitutes, alongside Canary Wharf, the primary central business district (CBD) of London. It constituted most of London fr ...

's housing estates. The area the estate occupied belonged to the City since 1251, and was originally known as ''Twelve Acres''. At the centre of the square is

St Philip's Church, Avondale Square St Philip's Church, Avondale Square (also known as St Philip the Apostle, Camberwell and St Philip and St Mark's, Camberwell) is a parish church within the Avondale Square Estate in Camberwell in the London Borough of Southwark. It is dedicated ...

, rebuilt in 1963 to a design by

Nugent Cachemaille-Day Nugent Francis Cachemaille-Day (1896–1976), often referred to as NF Cachemaille-Day, was an English architect who designed some of the most "revolutionary" 20th-century churches in the country. His Church of St Nicholas, Burnage has been ca ...

following wartime bomb damage. Adjacent to the church is a sculpture, ''Woman and dog'', by Anthony Weller.

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*{{Official, https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/housing/housing-estates/avondale-square-estate City of London land