All Saints Church, Peckham

The church started in 1867, when Peckham was a village on the edge of Camberwell and a haven outside the intense bustle of Victorian London. Within a few years the church had grown from about 20 people, meeting in the vicar's sitting room, to over 600 adults in the congregation. There was also a children's service for 800 children on Sunday afternoons. The church hall and the church building were completed in 1872. The church has pews for around 400 people, with space in the side aisles for an additional 150 to 200 people.(Pews replaced by chairs in 2016). The church grew rapidly in the early 20th century but, like many inner-city London churches, declined after World War II. By the…