St. Mary Magdalene Church, Peckham

Client: St. Mary Magdalene Church
Architect: Initiatives In Design
Contractor: Priory Gate
Value: £1.3M

Structural Form

The new brick clad church utilises a steel frame with a pitched timber roof; this provides a flexible open-plan solution to maximise the client’s variable needs, i.e. religious, educational and social events. A flat slab reinforced concrete roof was used for the low level wings, providing thermal massing for the offices and enabling future scaffolding of the roof for maintainence. Due to the original basement, the new church utilises piled foundations and a suspended RC ground floor flat slab.

Comments

New church and community centre funded by the parishioners and the Diocese of Southwark. Due to the impracticability and poor condition of the previous 1962 church, the parish decided that a new church was required. The old church was thus demolished and a new, more practical and sustainable church constructed.

Current Vacancies

We currently have no vacancies