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Church in Greenwich Town Centre - St Alfege Greenwich.

The church is built on the traditonal site of the martyrdom of St Alfege, a Saxon Archbishop, taken as hostage in Canterbury and killed here in 1012.

A church has been on this site since medieval times. Henry VIII was baptized here. General James Wolfe is burried here.

This the third church on the site, dates to the early 18th century.

It is Grade I listed.

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786/26/G1 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET SE10 19-OCT-51 (West side) CHURCH OF ST ALFEGE

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GREENWICH CHURCH STREET SE10 4412 (West Side) Church of St Alfege TQ 3877 26/G1 19.10.51. A 2. 1711-14 by Nicholas Hawksmoor. One of the 1st of the "Fifty New Churches" arising from the Act of 1711. Masons were Edward Strong (who had worked for Wren on St Paul's Cathedral) and Edward Tufnell. Steeple 1730 by John James, rebuilt 1813. Cruciform church with West tower. Portland stone ashlar. Doric entablature all the way round, supported on pilasters defining bays. Moderately low pitched roof now copper covered. Pediment at East end with urn finials at either side. Doric entablature beneath broken by high, round arch. Centre of East end recessed, producing portico distyle in antis, with steps up to it but no entrance. Wide, segment-headed 1st floor window supports, modified entablature with 2 pilasters rising thence to archivolt. Flat pilasters define back wall of portico. Flanking windows round arched. Low, flat-arched windows below. Along sides round headed 1st floor windows, in round arches recesses, have aprons below with guttae. Square ground floor windows in square recesses. In transept ends 3 round arched doors with plain architraves and impost blocks. Paved terrace in front of them reaching to gabled crypt entrances. 3 nave windows at either side of transepts. Square west tower of 4 stages. Ground floor blank with shallow niches and projecting angle pilasters. Low 2nd stage has oculus with one keystone, and low, round angle buttresses. Taller, Ionic 3rd stage with paired angle pilasters. Above this octagonal stage with clock faces and urns at angles. Tall, Corinthian drum, with oculus above round arch in each of 8 faces, supports dome with stone spike, ball and vane finial. West entrance in tower has shouldered architrave, triple keystone, alternating block sides, cornice and pediment. Flanking round headed windows, in round arched recesses, with Gibbs surround. Interior almost completely remodelled after war damage. West organ gallery and side galleries renewed. Ceiling plaster work with oval raised border also renewed. Corinthian columns of reredos remain. East wall repainted in imitation of coffered apse. Restoration by Albert Richardson in 1950's. Original staircases remain in transepts. C17 baluster font on North-west end.