St Mark’s C Of E Parish Church

St Mark’s a friendly Anglican church, just a stone’s throw from Wimbledon railway and underground station.
The church itself is of modern design, built in 1968 – 9 to designs by Humphrys & Hurst in association with David Nye, to replace a late Victorian church which had burned down. Very unusually for a church, it is pentagonal in layout, with five large concrete arches meeting at a central point to give a spacious tent-​like interior, incorporating a roof-​top lantern. The walls are pierced by rectangular windows filled with vibrantly coloured modern glass, which are meant to depict the creation (look carefully and you can see fish, whales and planets).
Although very much of its time, it works well as a worship space: worship is effectively in the round, with a large sanctuary (and the longest altar I’ve ever seen) surrounded by pews on three sides. The church also has a small chapel, and plenty of rooms for meetings, as well as a church hall (available for hire) and an attractive lawned area at the rear.
Weekly worship is on Sundays at 08:00 and 10:00 and Wednesdays at 13:00. Services are in a modern, liberal Catholic tradition (but no incense), and attracts a friendly congregation with lots of young families. There is a crèche and various groups for children on Sundays during the service, and there is a Youth Group for teenagers (see details on church website).