John Loughborough Pearson, 1817-97, was a church architect and a Gothicist. He set up practise in 1843, and began designing small churches, his most important early work being St. Peter's, Kennington Lane, Lambeth, in 1863.

The chapel of St. Peter's Convent, Woking, Surrey is typically neo-Gothic and is considered to be one of Pearson's finest. Pearson died before the building work was begun in 1898 and the contract was completed by his son, Frank.

The Chapel has other notable examples of Pearson's fine wrought iron work seen in the gates and railings.