St. Mark, Bromley, Kent

Description

St. Mark's, Westmoreland road, erected in place of the iron church, at the foot of Mason's hill, opened 30 Nov. 1884, is a chapel of ease to the parish church of SS. Peter and Paul, and was built at a cost of upwards of £8,000, from designs by Mr. Evelyn Hellicar A.R.I.B.A. and consecrated 22 Oct. 1898; in 1906 a tower was added at a cost of about £3,000; a lady chapel was erected in 1911 on the south side of the church, in memory of the Rev. L. J. Elwin, a former curate: there are 600 sittings.

Church Records

The register of SS. Peter and Paul, for baptisms dates from the year 1558; burials, 1578; marriages, 1575.