2015

TQ3278 : Entrance to former council offices, Penrose Street

taken 9 years ago, near to Camberwell, Southwark, England

Entrance to former council offices, Penrose Street
Entrance to former council offices, Penrose Street
Detail of the former Southwark Council Environment and Leisure Department offices TQ3278 : Former council offices, 34 Penrose Street, Walworth showing the location of the plaques.
Manor Place development

The area between Manor Place and Penrose Street was once largely occupied by St John's Chapel and its graveyard. The chapel dating from c.1800 was a Calvinistic Methodist congregation of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. The chapel itself is long gone and burials ceased in 1853, but it appears it was never cleared so the site presumably contains many bodies. [Source: Museum of London Archaeology, Historic Environment Assessment, 2015].

Manor Place Baths was built on part of the site in 1895. The main building of the baths complex fronting Manor Place was later used as offices by Southwark Council, and is now grade 2 listed (list entry number 1385689). Since 2005 it has been used as the Kagyu Samye Dzong Tibetan Buddhist Centre. The site also includes a Lambeth Council recycling depot.

As of 2015 a planning application had been submitted to redevelop the area for housing, so it seems likely that the council depot will soon disappear, and the future of the baths and other buildings on the block is uncertain.


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Stephen Craven   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 29 April, 2015   (more nearby)
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Tuesday, 5 May, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3226 7825 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:29.2644N 0:5.7880W
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OSGB36: geotagged! TQ 3227 7825
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