1862 Anglican St. Peter, South Shoebury

1862 Anglican St. Peter, South Shoebury built of local yellow bricks and with a eastern belfry as a National School for 175 children outside the Gunnery School in 1862. An iron chapel of ease for St. Andrews Church was dedicated to St. Peter in 1899 and moved on rollers beside the redundant school in 1911. The latter was dedicated to St. Peter in 1920 and the iron church was replaced by a red brick hall after 100 M.P.H. wind damage in 1987. This information is largely from Judith Shoebureyness a History (2006, Phillimore Chichester). There is also a website - www.southshoebury.org. It is strange that the photographed building is marked a school on the developers plan of 1857 which shows it on "Church Street" with no church on it. The brickwork is largely hidden except near the roof but would have come in the 1860's from the adjacent Shorefield Brickworks.