History

This church family was started in 1867 when Peckham was a suburban haven outside the intense bustle of Victorian London, and was a village on the edge of Camberwell. Within a very few years the church had grown from about 20 people meeting in the vicar’s sitting room to over 600 adults in the congrega-tion, and even a Children’s service for 800 children each Sunday afternoon. The Church Hall and the Church building itself were completed by the 1870’s to accommodate the growing needs.

For one reason or another, by the early 1990’s the congregation had dwindled down to a small but committed core, they had no full-time minister, and plans were being made to demolish the entire site and build community housing in its place. It seems to us that God had other plans, and with the appointment of a new vicar and an influx of new faith for the future, the congregation began to grow again. Frog Orr-Ewing arrived as the vicar in summer 2003 to join a loving and diverse congregation of several hundred who have a deep commitment to our community in Peckham.