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Wells Way, LONDON, SE5 7GB

The building: Part of a multi-purpose building designed by the architect Maurice Binghan Adams. Other functions included a public baths and wash-house. The building is Grade II listed, and described at this https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1386038. The library closed in 1991 and is currently occupied by an arts centre run by Theatre Delicatessen - http://theatredelicatessen.co.uk/old-library/a-new-h/. A fuller view of the building at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2726256. The architect: "Maurice Bingham Adams was born in 1849. He was educated in Sussex and worked in two large building firms in Brighton from May 1865 to April 1866 prior to being articled to Horatio Nelson Goulty of Brighton in February 1867. He worked as assistant to Sir William Emerson and to Thomas Maynard, Parish Surveyor, and was clerk of works and architect to Philip Causton Lockwood, Borough Surveyor of Brighton, from 1870 to 1872. He commenced independent practice in 1873 and was admitted ARIBA in 1876, by which time he had moved to London. He was elevated to FRIBA in 1886. Adams served as Architect to Brighton Borough Council and as Honorary Architect to Chiswick Charity Trustees. He was on the staff of 'Building News' from 1872 until his retirement in 1923. He died on 17 August 1933." - Quoted from this http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=206069.

On Wells Way. And the mural on the end wall? Yes, of course, it's a Camberwell Beauty.

Side view of main entrance taken from St George's Way. The church has now been converted into flats. It was opened as a church in 1854.

See Image for a better photograph - and notes - by Stephen Richards.

St George’s Church was originally built in 1824 by a local architect Francis Octavius Bedford and was one of the ‘million pound’ churches paid for by a vote of Parliament, being part of the thanks for a grateful nation for deliverance from Napoleon. Bedford also built the 'Waterloo' churches at West Norwood and Waterloo, and St George's Church is almost a replica of St John's in Waterloo Road. By 1976 it had become deconsecrated and derelict and in the early 1980s a serious fire destroyed the interior leaving only the external walls and the tower standing. For many years it was a most depressing sight but it was restored for housing between 1992 and 1994, and St George’s Church Housing Co-operative now comprises 30 one bedroom flats built on three floors within the existing walls around a central courtyard.

The war memorial is to the fallen of the First World War. For more about the church itself see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2696927

Redundant church, now residential

Redundant church, now residential

Wells Way in Camberwell, South London, on a bright sunny November day in 2013.