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Landmark Arts Centre
A soaring late-Victorian former church re-cast as a community arts venue. Its vast nave, tall arcades and stained glass now frame exhibitions, concerts and fairs, letting visitors experience Gothic Revival architecture as a working cultural space rather than a relic.
Opening Hours
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Monday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Thursday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
What's not to miss inside?
From St Alban’s Church to Arts Centre
Charts the building’s rescue after redundancy and its conversion to an arts hub by a local charity.Before-and-after photographs reveal how pews, pulpits and liturgical fittings gave way to galleries, lighting rigs and a stage while preserving the fabric.
📍 Nave interpretation panels
Gothic Revival Craft
Stone carving, traceried windows and stained glass demonstrate the craft language of late-19th-century church building.Individual motifs—foliage capitals, angel figures, geometric glazing—show how pattern and light were used to lift a large space.
📍 Side aisles and east end
A ‘Cathedral’ Scale for Suburbia
The unusually broad, high nave was designed to serve a fast-growing Thames-side community, earning the site its popular ‘cathedral-like’ reputation.Measured drawings and period views explain why the volume works so well for large choirs, orchestras and fairs today.
📍 Crossing and west end
Inspire your Friends
- The building’s survival is a late-20th-century conservation story: a local campaign secured the structure and re-opened it as an arts centre rather than allow demolition.
- Retaining the full nave volume—rather than subdividing it—makes the Landmark one of the largest uninterrupted arts spaces in outer southwest London.
