- – Mary Ann Gardens,
Deptford is a magnificent Queen Anne
church completed in 1723 set in an oasis
of green behind the High Street. The
crypt is also worth a visit. Designed
by Thomas Archer in a vigorous Baroque
style and built between 1713 and 1730,
St Paul's is the most important and prominent
listed building (Grade I) in the borough.
- – Deptford
Green – Dates from 1697. See Ezekiel
in the Valley of Dry Bones by Grinling
Gibbons, famous for wood carvings in
St Paul’s Cathedral and memorial
to Elizabethan dramatist Christopher
Marlowe, killed in Deptford in 1593.
(Usually open to visitors Mon-Fri 9am – 2.30pm)
- , the old naval
buildings on Deptford Foreshore have
panoramic views across the River Thames.
There is an evocative atmosphere, which
makes it easy to imagine the busy shores
of the Thames when it was full of ships
bringing exotic goods from around the
world.
- -- In
the 1970s, in common with most wasteland
sites in the area, the perimeter of this
wildspace was ringed by double defences
against travellers and fly-tippers; the
inner was a rubble bank, the outer a
two metre high corrugated iron fence.
It became a nature park in 1984 after
lengthy campaigning by local residents.
The nature park increased in size through
the gradual incorporation of a former
lorry park on its western end. Like most
wasteland sites, the park contains clues
to, and reminders of the uses it was
put to in the past. The park was originally
named Bronze Street Nature Park. It was
renamed in 1994 in memory of Sue Godfrey,
a local resident and environmental campaigner,
who was killed in a road accident, in
recognition of the unceasing effort she
had devoted to the park.
- --Grade
II--This was designed by J and J S Edmeston
in 1885 for the London and South West
Bank Ltd and was built from red brick
and buff terracotta in a baronial style.
The strong vertical emphasis, bold detailing
and corner site provided the building
with a desirable prominence. Changing
high street banking trends have seen
the building converted to flats.
- , Lewisham Way, New
Cross SE14--Grade II, This college was
designed by John Shaw in 1843 in the
English Renaissance style and originally
occupied by the Royal Naval School. The
building has a restrained but imposing
character and is built from red brick
with stone dressings. The college chapel
is by the same architect and is now used
as a theatre.
- , Edward Place and Crossfield
Street, Deptford --Grade II, Built between
1833 and 1836 for the London and Greenwich
Railway, this viaduct carried the first
passenger railway in London and is one
of the first major achievements of railway
engineering in Britain. The viaduct is
over five kilometres long and is built
from yellow-grey bricks. Each arch is
20 feet from centre to centre and 22
feet high.
- , New Cross
Road, New Cross Gate --Grade II, This
is a large public house in a heavy classical
style, built c.1840. It features a large
bracketed eaves-cornice with windows
alternating with five bells in the frieze.
- , 281 Lewisham Way, Deptford
--Grade II. This distinctive villa was
built in 1771-3 by George Gibson the
Younger for himself (the same architect
who designed St. Mary's, Lewisham). It
has a highly unconventional exterior
(the architect had only to please himself
and not a client), with projecting bow
windows in the centre of three sides
and on the fourth side a four column
portico, two columns deep. It is built
from Kentish ragstone which gives it
a rustic appearance. It was known as
the Comical House in the 19th century.
- , Convoys Wharf, Princes
Street, Deptford --Grade II. This is
a purpose built naval office building
dating from c.1700 and central to the
functioning of Deptford's Royal Naval
Dockyard in the 18th and 19th centuries.
It was used by the Master Shipwright
and his assistants: Master Attendant,
Clerk of Survey, Timber Masters and Foremen.
The attic was added in 1805 and was probably
used as a drawing office. The slightly
later adjacent building was built as
the Master Shipwright's apartment.
- ,
Brookmill Road, Deptford --Grade II and
Locally Listed. The contrast in scale
between these two buildings could hardly
be greater but they shared the same purpose
of providing much needed public housing.
Carrington House, 1902-3, was built as
a lodging house for single men by London
County Council (LCC) while Sylva Cottages,
1903, were built for working class families
by the Greenwich Board of Works. The
arts and crafts styling of Carrington
House with its deep-eaved end towers,
twin-bayed off-centre entrance and use
of stone, brick and render portrays the
influence of the Scottish architect,
Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- , New Cross Road,
New Cross -- Grade II. This was the winning
design for a competition organised by
the newly formed Borough of Deptford.
Built in the Edwardian Baroque style
by Lanchester and Rickards, 1903-5, it
is one of Lewisham's most enjoyable public
buildings. The elaborate stone façade
is very florid and features a central
doorway with carvings of Tritons supporting
an oriel bay window and statues of admirals
between first floor windows. The grandeur
is continued inside with marble columns,
staircase and sculptures, which are lit
by a domed lantern.
- , Lewisham
Way, Deptford -- Grade II. The library
was built in a modified Baroque style,
with a large barrel-vaulted hall and
massive staircase, 1914. The architect
was H Brumwell Thomas who designed many
public buildings in the early 20th century,
including Woolwich Town Hall and Belfast
City Hall. The library is now used as
artists' studios and exhibition space.
- , Laurie Grove, New
Cross --Grade II. These swimming baths,
slipper baths and laundries were designed
in 1895-98 by Thomas Dinwiddy, a local
architect and commissioned by the Vestry
Board of St Paul's Deptford (the precursor
to the Borough of Deptford) under the
Public Baths and Wash-houses Act 1846.
The building is of Jacobean style with
separate entrances for men and women.
Many original internal features survive
and the building has been converted to
art studios for Goldsmiths College.
- , Deptford --Grade
II. This is a late 17th century group
of small timber framed houses and shops
with some early 19th century alterations
to the front. Several of the houses have
clay pantile roofs and weather-boarding
at the rear - typical materials before
slate and brick became widespread in
the 18th and 19th centuries.
- , Deptford
Grade II*--These terraces of early 18th
century houses on Albury Street are an
excellent example of the early introduction
of urban terrace housing in what was
then a town outside the city of London.
The houses all have intricately carved
doorcases, some with cherubs, others
with grotesque masks, and flush framed
timber sash-in-case windows. Some of
the houses were originally the homes
of sea captains who set out from Deptford
on long voyages.
- , New Cross Gate
--Grade II. This is a quality terrace
of seven townhouses dating from 1841
and originally called Hatcham Terrace.
Cast iron railings and balustrading survive.
- ,
New Cross Road, New Cross Gate -- Grade
II. This is the ventilating pipe to the
1897 Greenwich Board of Works underground
public convenience. The column is of
an Egyptian pattern by McFarlane's Castings
of Glasgow and modelled on a design by
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson for six lamp
standards outside his Egyptian Halls,
Glasgow. This and an identical pipe at
Clifton Rise, New Cross (not the original
site) are the only examples of the Scottish
architect's work in England.
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