From The Builder March 12, 1870: So numerous are the Norwegian and Swedish Seamen who come to the port of London that it is proposed to build a church for them in Rotherhithe and we have engraved the design for it that has been made under the direction of a committee by Messrs Giles &
Accepted design for Rotherhithe Town Hall, View from Neptune Street and Lower Road. After Rotherhithe Council merged with the old Bermondsey Borough Council in 1905,
The interior decorations were in Louis XV style, cream and gold prevailing; there were two tiers only,
The London church and mission was first established in 1882, when the Finnish port chaplain who had been sent to Hull in 1880 was relocated south because of the level of work demanded in London.
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