Eltham Expressionism

Eltham, despite the palace, isn’t high on anyone’s list of places to visit, for fairly obvious reasons. Anyone who does find themselves there might be advised to wander down Middle Park Avenue to St Saviour’s Church, one of London’s few examples of proper rough interwar Expressionism, roaring out of the mock tudor timidity like the clumps of stone that rise out of the corners of Scandinavian motorways. Nairn’s London sums it up thus: ‘every bit of it seems to be impelled and inevitable’. Photo courtesy of Paul Dyer.