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Trinity Church Square, LONDON, SE1 4HU

The early-mid C19th developments in Trinity Church Square and surrounding streets are very well preserved. The terraces are handsome and uniform, in brick with stuccoed and rusticated ground floors and stuccoed window surrounds. The houses are generally of three storeys plus basements and two bays wide. These, which form the west side of the square, were built c1827. Grade II listed.

The church of Holy Trinity, Newington was built in 1824 (architect: Francis Bedford), and Trinity Church Square developed around it. The name derives from being built on land granted by Trinity House. It is Grade II listed (list entry number 1385999). It was declared redundant as a church in 1972, and the parish was united with St Matthew, Southwark in 1974; a rebuilt St Matthew's Image is now the parish church. The freehold of the site and building was sold in 1977 and it is now the Henry Wood Concert Hall. It was rebuilt internally as an open hall with a new west gallery. The bells were re-cast and re-hung in a now-demolished church in Waterloo and later moved to St Peter's Walworth Image

Part way along the street is a road narrowing with signage that indicates the section beyond is one-way except for cycle contraflow. Incidentally this was the first day that the general public was allowed up to the viewing gallery on the Shard (in the background) - at a price!

In the foreground, a lamp post, height approx. 5 metres. In the distance, the Shard, height 309 metres. In between, the tower of the Henry Wood Hall Image, the height of which I estimate by triangulation to be about 34m (the distance from the viewpoint to the hall being about 100m, and to the Shard 900m).

Trinity Church is now the Henry Wood Hall, the statue is one of the oldest outside statues in London, probably of Alfred the Great and possibly originally sited in Westminster Hall.

The church in the centre of Trinity Church Square is now called Henry Wood Hall and is a recording hall for classical orchestral music. The church had been bombed in World War 2 and that is partly why it has been repurposed as a recording studio. Trinity Church is a “Waterloo church”: one of a number built to celebrate and commemorate the defeat of Napoleon. The others in south London are St John the Evangelist near Waterloo station, St Mark’s in Kennington, St Luke’s in West Norwood and St Matthew’s in Brixton. In front of Henry Wood Hall in the locked garden is this statue which is reputedly of King Alfred. Recent research though has shown the statue to be in two parts of vastly different ages - see https://londonist.com/london/history/southwark-s-statue-of-alfred-the-great

The building Image is on Swan Street.

The building is on Swan Street. The present Crown Court is on the banks of the Thames Image