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In creating pages featuring local churches and places and worship, I am really interested in the buildings themselves and not their activities but I will make a point of highlighting their websites if I can find them. Although most of the churches will be in Addiscombe itself, I am going to be fairly relaxed about drifting over the borders a bit as they can be such interesting looking buildings and because the nearest churches for various denominations might not be in Addiscombe itself anyway.
The thumbnail images on this page will either link to a single photo on Fotopic, or to a collection if I have several photos of the church. Some churches will be will be featured on their own page and the thumbnail will link to that. The Google Map shown at the bottom of the page, browser and configuration permitting, will have the location of all the featured churches marked when I get around to it. There may be the odd one or two that aren't visible on the map until it is scrolled slightly but I prefer to keep the same map in use everywhere and I am happy with its size so I don't want to change it. The '[show on map]' links on the page will have the same effect as clicking on the appropriate marker on the map.
Addiscombe Baptist Church lies on the north side of Morland Road, on the west side of the junction with Northway Road. I really don't know anything of the history of this church, bar that a baptist chapel was marked in this location on the 1911 O.S. map. [show on map]
Please see the separate page on the church. [show on map]
Please see the individual page on the church. [show on map]
The Church of God of Prophecy lies on the north side of Elmers Road between the rear of the garage and the start of the residential housing. On the 1911 O.S. map the building is shown as a Wesleyan Methodist church. [show on map]
The Church of the Nazarene lies on the north side of Lower Addiscombe Road between Alexandra Road and the junction with Morland Road. On the 1911 O.S. map the building is marked as a mission church. The building is larger than it seems as there is a small hall to the rear of the church.[show on map]
The Croydon Seventh Day Adventist Church is actually separated from Addiscombe by the whole of the 'Selhurst Triangle' of railway lines and the depot and even disappears of the top of my usual map. However I've included it as I did walk past it on my travels and there aren't any other Seventh Day Adventist Churches featured. It is on the west side of Selhurst Road a little to the north of Selhurst station and more or less opposite the entrance to Heavers Meadow. On the 1911 O.S. map the building is marked as a Congregational church. [show on map]
This church lies on the west side of Dartnell Road more or less opposite Bredon Road. I don't know what the building was used for before they bought it.[show on map]
The church has a website at http://www.holysabbath.org.uk/.
St George's opened in 1868 on the corner of Oakfield Road and St James's Road replacing a previous 'iron church' on the same site. It closed in 1938 and in 1947 was bought by Croydon & District Masonic Hall PLC and converted for use as a masonic centre.[show on map]
Please see the separate page on the church. [show on map]
St Mary's Catholic Church on Wellesley Road is perhaps a little bit off topic for the site but I have had a couple of photos around for ages that weren't doing anything and I do pass it quite often. Having said that the parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation only covers the east side of Addiscombe so this might actually be the Catholic parish church for a large part of town. [show on map]
St Mary's has an official website at http://www.saint-mary.org.uk/.
Please see the separate page on the church. [show on map]
I mentioned St Michael and All Angels with St James a few times on the St James's page. This is located on Poplar Walk (that's the road between North End and Wellesley Road south of West Croydon bus station) which makes it a bit off topic for the site but I've got a couple of photos of it and do pass it quite often so it might as well be mentioned. [show on map]
St Michael and All Angels with St James has an official website at http://www.croydonstmichael.org.uk/.
Please see the separate page on the church. [show on map]
It may be a little way outside Addiscombe to the west, but it would be hard to ignore West Croydon Baptist Church, or "Spurgeon's Tabernacle". This dominates the junction of Whitehorse Road and St James's Road. Completed in 1873, it is a building that demands photographing and its associated halls and the like are equally impressive so I felt I had to have it on the site. [show on map]
The church has a website at http://www.westcroydon.com/.
Woodside Baptist Church lies on the west side of Spring Lane, between Woodside Road and Cleaverholme Close, making it just over the borders into Woodside. [show on map]
The church has an official website at http://www.woodsidechurch.org.uk/.
Woodside Christian Centre is opening in January 2009 as the home and name for Denmark Road Gospel Hall. It is part of a development that also includes residential units and lies on the corner of Morland Road and Hermitage Lane, opposite Blackhorse Lane. [show on map]
The church has an official website at http://www.woodsidecc.org.uk/.
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