St James Cloister Church of Scotland Goose Green

[85volga]

Hi,

Does anyone have any old pictures or links to the old Church of Scotland site possibly known as St James Cloister located on the corner of East Dulwich Rd and Worlingham Road?

The Church was knocked down in 1976 to make way for the retirement home currently located on the site , it would of been located about midway along Goose Green.

Just after some information

Many Thanks in advance

[solar]

Try the local studies library.

[almost peckham]

Dyos's 'Victorial Suburb' shows comparative maps of the Worlingham road estate at 1880 and 1895. The church is in the 1895 map marked as 'St James Church'. Page 108 in my edition. Not sure what the maps are based on but most probably OS sheets.

[mikeb]

Mention here says it was the last Scottish church built in London

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_JMGgW1tJ6MC&lpg=PT35&ots=qQHj0qCDz_&dq=%22st%20james%22%20%22goose%20green%22%20church%20dulwich&pg=PT35#v=onepage&q=goose&f=false

More on the Rev George Stott here. His son was Lord Stott, though not born in Dulwich

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb227-mspr5101.m5%28ms846%29.txt

Rev Dr George Gordon Stott (1868-1952) studied at the United College of St Andrews from 1886, gaining his MA in 1890, and then became a student at St Mary's College, St Andrews, being awarded a BD in 1893, and winning a number of prizes for his work. In the same year he was working as assistant to the professor of Hebrew and was licensed by Perth presbytery. He became minister at Dulwich (1898-1906), Northesk (1906-1910) and Cramond (1910-1943)

[mikeb]

If you can get to the Booth archive, you might find something interesting here

Booth A54, pp31-35 Booklet - Life and work supplement for the Scottish National Churches in England, contains an article on St James Church, East Dulwich, November 1900

And some more here

http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=227414

You probably want to get hold of a book called "The Scots Kirk in London" by George Cameron, published in 1979