St Peter's Parish News
Thursday 1 January 1970
St John’s Upper Norwood
Fr John Pritchard, who served his curacy here at St Peter’s about 15 years ago, is now vicar of St John the Evangelist Upper Norwood in South London. It’s a beautiful church, but for many years it has been suffering from subsidence which threatens the building. The grade II* listed church was designed by JL Pearson in 1887 and is now on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register.
Fr John has been interviewed by the local news media channel MyLondon to promote the appeal to save the church. In 2017, they successfully completed a £750,000 underpinning project on one side of the building with help from generous funders and the Heritage Lottery Fund, but more work – and funding – is needed.
As with all filming, there are bound to be some bloopers, and the reporter at Upper Norwood was caught on camera accidentally addressing Fr John as “Fr Ted”. That would, of course, be an ecumenical matter….
Watch now
www.sjun.org.uk 
