St Margaret the Queen – Mikhail Riches

Introduction

The brief for this project is to create a centre for a new religious community at St Margaret the Queen Church in Streatham Hill, South London.

Our proposals include new structures and spaces for community activities, including a cafe, prep school and artists’ studios within the Listed church building itself, as well as private housing and monastic ‘community house’ accommodation in the grounds of the church.

‘We hope to build a community of people at St Margaret’s who are passionate about exploring these questions. Who wish to dream and imagine how a small Victorian church in Streatham Hill might become a place to encounter a different sort of community, one that is hospitable, and generous, that desires to plumb the depths of learning in order to be reconciled to God and one another more deeply, where people seek to give and serve and not just take and be served.”

Revd Gareth Powell, St Margaret the Queen

www.stmtq.com

Church Re-ordering

Our brief for this part of the project was to:
Acoustically manage diverse activities, from noisy children to quiet prayer.
Retain the flow of space and passage of light.
Touch the listed structure lightly, if at all.
Add something to the experience of being in the church, not detract from it.

Our proposals achieve this by creating a ‘courtyard’ within the Nave. Glazed screens touch the walls of the church lightly, if at all, and create both a visual and acoustic barrier, behind which the prep school and artist’s studios are contained.

“There is enormous possibility to develop the site of St Margaret the Queen to service the needs of the deanery and local community.

Possibilities include building a community house on the land next to the church, remodelling the internals of the church to maintain a space for prayer and devotion, as well as spaces to be hospitable to the local community.

Over the next few years, in consultation with the community that begins to form, the deanery and the local community, we hope to begin to develop the site.”
Revd Gareth Powell, St Margaret the Queen

Press

South London Press August 2015

ClientSt Margaret the Queen Church Council

Project TeamAnnalie Riches, David Mikhail, Sophie Roycroft, Tillmann de Graaff

M&E EngineerGreengauge

Quantity SurveyorJackson Coles

PlantingJane Brockbank

Planning Consultant Howard Sharp and Partners

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Re-ordering of a Grade II Listed Church and new 'Monastic House’.

St Margaret the Queen Church, Streatham Hill
ClientSt Margaret the Queen Church Council
Project TeamAnnalie Riches, David Mikhail, Sophie Roycroft, Tillmann de Graaff
M&E EngineerGreengauge
Quantity SurveyorJackson Coles
PlantingJane Brockbank
Planning Consultant Howard Sharp and Partners
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