Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe

Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church in Rotherhithe, south east London, within the diocese of Southwark.

Holy Trinity Church

History
Church interior

The original church on the site was built between 1837 and 1838, as the expansion of the Surrey Commercial Docks drove a growth of population that exhausted the capacity of the original parish of St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe. The building was designed in a neo-Gothic style by Sampson Kempthorne, better known as a designer of workhouses:

The church consists of a shallow sanctuary recess and a wide barn-like nave with vestibules and a tower at the west. The nave is lit by large lancet windows and the whole church is meanly designed in 13th-century style. The tower has an embattled parapet.[1]

The original church building was destroyed by incendiary bombs during an air raid on 7 September 1940, making it the first British Church to be destroyed in the Second World War. The adjacent school buildings survived the War, were used for services until the completion of the present church in 1959, and remain in use as the Church Hall.

The new church building was constructed to a 1957 design by Thomas Ford, and features a distinctive mural of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus by the Jewish-born German artist Hans Feibusch.

References
  1. Malden, H.E. (ed.), Parishes: Rotherhithe', in A History of the County of Surrey, Vol. 4, 83-92 (London: Victoria County History, 1912)

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