Saint John the Evangelist is the Church of England parish church of Penge, Kent (now the London Borough of Bromley), in the Diocese of Rochester,

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. It is located on Penge High Street, and was erected 1847 to designs of architects

Edwin Nash Edwin Nash (1812 – 14 May 1884) was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. Most of his commissions were churches. He worked with architect John Nash Round on St. John the Evangelist, ...

J. N. Round John Nash Round (1817''1861 England Census'' – 30 October 1864) was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in the mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. He worked with architect Edwin Nash) on St. John the Evangelist, Penge (1850); ...

. 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

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. 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.John Newman. ''West Kent and the Weald.'' The “Buildings of England” Series, First Edition, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and

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, eds. (London: Penguin, 1969), p.433. It has been

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since 1990. The church is prevented from dominating the skyline of Penge by the distant tower farther south on Beckhenham Road of the Fortress Romanesque-looking

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, built 1912 to designs by P. Morley Horder with passage aisles and clerestory, and shafts on large, excellently carved corbels. The early funding of the church came from John Dudin Brown who was a Thames wharfinger.Janet Sondheimer, ‘Brown, Ann Dudin (1822–1917)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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Penge Churches completed in 1866 19th-century Church of England church buildings Diocese of Rochester 1866 establishments in England Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Bromley Grade II listed churches in London {{London-church-stub