population growth led to a separate ecclesiastical parish of St Antholin, Nunhead, being formed in 1878, with the church built in 1877. The area then came within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and was transferred to the County of London in 1889. In 1887 Nunhead is recorded as having a population of 10,727. Having formed part of the Camberwell parish, it became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell in 1900. There was a Nunhead Football Club from 1888 to 1949. Nunhead has some fine examples of late Victorian/early Edwardian properties; these can be seen on both Carden Road and Tresco Road. It is even reputed, in Claire Tomalin's biography of Charles Dickens' mistress Nelly Ternan, that Charles Dickens was taken on his death bed from the house he rented for Ternan, at Windsor Lodge in Linden Grove to Gad's Hill to die. The house no longer stands, but was at 31 Linden Grove. Old maps show that the church was next door to where the dental surgery now stands at 42 Linden Grove, so Windsor Lodge was presumably more or less opposite that. St Antholin's, Nunhead St Antholin church was built in 1877. Built in red brick it is large and rectangular and was built in the style of the first part of the 13th century. The church was built with funds from the sale of the site of St. Antholin's, Budge Row, which was demolished in 1875. The oak reredos designed by Sir Christopher Wren and a bell were brought from the original church. The church was destroyed by bombing in 1940 and later rebuilt and consecrated in 1957 and official renamed in 1958 as St Antony's Church. St Antony's was Listed Grade II in 1972 but became surplus to requirements of the Anglican Church and was declared redundant in 2001 and sold to its present owners, a Pentecostal congregation. It then became the Lighthouse Cathedral. The bell from the original St Antholin's now hangs in St Silas, Nunhead. Regeneration Nunhead forms part of Southwark London Borough Council's Peckham Programme regeneration scheme. As part of this plan, the area forms part of the East Peckham and Nunhead renewal area. A component was the proposal that the Cross River Tram could serve the area, however in November 2008 Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced that due to funding constraints this project would