John Keble Church
JOHN KEBLE CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064756
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- John Keble Church
- Statutory Address:
- JOHN KEBLE CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064756
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- John Keble Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- JOHN KEBLE CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- JOHN KEBLE CHURCH, CHURCH CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Barnet (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 20445 92094
Details
The following building shall be added:
TQ 29 SW CHURCH CLOSE
5/34 John Keble Church
II
Church. 1936, by D F Martin Smith. Concrete frame clad in stock brick; flat concrete roofs. Nave and sanctuary in main body of church with projecting ranges housing north and south aisles, west tower, and similar ranges surrounding sanctuary which house vestry, offices and Lady Chapel. Modern Movement style. 3-light east window with concrete lintel over raised brick architrave and square brick mullions framing metal casements; similar 2-light windows to sides of one-bay sanctuary and to 3-bay nave aisles. Porches in west angles of nave and aisles each have panelled double doors. Plain concrete coping to sanctuary and aisles and splayed cornice to main taller body of nave. West tower has small 2-light windows set in raised concrete architraves; west elevation has similar 3-light window above panel, inscribed with phoenix and the name JOHN KEBLE,which is splayed inwards above recessed bay with grid-like 20-light concrete- framed window; flat hood above panelled double doors; louvred belfry surmounted by mosaic copper cross and ball covered in gold leaf. Interior: white plastered walls; sanctuary floor of cream-coloured artificial stone; fine blue and gold mosaic panel with central dove to sanctuary ceiling; tall wrought-iron candelabra; triple sedilia and two pulpits. Circular oak font with projecting wrought-iron candelabra; west porch (beneath tower) is partitioned off by refined 'stripped Perpendicular' screen with mullioned upper stage above panelled lower stage; stairs to gallery above porch. Nave exhibits the first use in this country of the 'Diagrid' roofing system whereby the octagonal concrete roof is filled in by diagonally-intersecting beams with coloured ceiling boards to infill panels; this saved 40% on normal construction costs. Its good design and cheap cost made John Keble Church a very influential design: in 1951, Knopp-Fisher's The Future of Church Design held it as a sensible prototype for post-war church architecture. (Incorporated Church Building Society, Fifty Modern Churches, 1947, pp 34-7; Architecture Illustrated, November 1936, pp 179-181).
Listing NGR: TQ2044592094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Incorporated Church Building Society, , Fifty Modern Churches, (1947), 34-7
Fisher, K, The Future of Church Design, (1951)
Architecture Illustrated in November, (1936), 179-181
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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