Editing Brixton (section)

===Christian churches===
[[File:Mass in Brixton sept 07.jpg|thumb|upright|St Matthew's Brixton]]
Brixton lies within the [[Anglican Diocese of Southwark]].<ref name="anglican-southwark">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/lambeth-north |title=Lambeth North Deanery |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065451/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/lambeth-north |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> The grade II*listed [[St Matthew's Church, Brixton|St Matthew's Church]], located on Brixton Green, was built in 1822 by the architect [[C. F. Porden]] in the [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49772 |title=Brixton: Rush Common |editor1-first=F. H. W. |editor1-last=Sheppard |work=Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1956 |access-date=10 June 2013 |archive-date=12 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912192219/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=49772 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is one of the "[[Waterloo church]]es" built to celebrate Britain's victory at the [[Battle of Waterloo]].
St. Saviour's Church was a location filming site of Alfred Hitchcock's ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' in 1955, identified in the film as Ambrose Chapel.

The 1868 parish church of St Jude, located on Dulwich Road, was designed by the architect [[John Kirk (architect)|John Kirk]] of [[Woolwich]]. It closed in 1975, and the parish merged with St Matthew's. The church building is today used as business premises by a publishing company.<ref name="stjude">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/EAS01.pdf |title=East Brixton St Jude |work=Former places of worship in the Diocese of Southwark |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |archive-date=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065550/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/downloads/lostchurches/EAS01.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Christ Church Brixton Road|Christ Church on Brixton Road]] is an [[Art Nouveau]] and [[Byzantine]]-style [[Listed building|Grade II* listed building]] built in 1902 by [[Beresford Pite]],<ref name="christchurch">{{cite web |url=http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/040j |title=East Brixton Rd Christ Church |publisher=Church of England |access-date=12 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607065751/http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/040j |archive-date=7 June 2011}}</ref> and St Paul's church on Ferndale Road was originally built in 1958 as a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] church by [[John Soper]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=7 November 2014 |title=St Paul, Ferndale Road, Brixton |url=https://londonchurchbuildings.com/2014/11/07/st-paul-ferndale-road-brixton/ |access-date=13 October 2022 |website=London Churches in photographs |language=en}}</ref>

[[Corpus Christi Church, Brixton|Corpus Christi Church]] in Brixton comes under the remit of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark]].<ref name="catholic-southwark">{{cite web |url=http://directory.rcsouthwark.co.uk/brixton_hill_corpusxti.html |title=Corpus Christi Brixton Hill |publisher=Archdiocese of Southwark |access-date=12 August 2009 |archive-date=23 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100223071031/http://directory.rcsouthwark.co.uk/brixton_hill_corpusxti.html |url-status=live }}</ref>