The Church of St Peter, Eaton Square
Basic information:
The church web site (says very little about history) and St Peter’s Church Eaton Square wikipedia page. It is a grade II* listed building. There is a good picture of the inside on The Braithwaite Partnership website
Introduction
Designed by Henry Hakewill in 1827 in the Greek Revival style (for the Commissioners Church – sometimes called the Waterloo churches or Million Act Churches as originally £1m was set aside in memory of the dead of the Battle of Waterloo), burned down and restored in 1837 by Charles Hearrad and J H Hakewill expanded by Arthur Blomfield from 1873-5 adding a chancel, nave.
Rebuilt and opened in 1992 by the Braithwaite partnership (a husband and wife team – John and Nicki who saw the church burn) following a fire in 1987. The fire was set by an anti-Catholic arsonist on the mistaken belief that this was a Roman Catholic church… The church now has offices on the first floor, a large meeting room on the second, and the Vicar’s four bedroom house and three maisonettes on the top floor – all within the confines of the Georgian Building (I’d like to know how they managed this).
The new church includes a vicarage, offices, flat for a curate, verger and music director, a meeting hall, nursery school rooms and a large playroom for the youth club…
The church today is used as a base by the Eaton Square Concerts – who put on classical music.
Portico based after the west portico of the Erectheion. It uses Ionic columns.
Glass probably by Clayton and Bell. Mosaic floor with keys of St Peter.
Monuments include
- George Howard Wilkinson, Bishop of St Andrews d 1907
- Victor John Fergus Geruson d 1896
- Mary Georgiana Cathcart d 1852
- Harold Wingfield, Midshipman on H M S Newcastle drowned in the China Sea, 1870.