Church of St Peter le Poer
Church of St Peter le Poer, Albion Avenue
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064763
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter le Poer
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter le Poer, Albion Avenue
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1064763
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter le Poer
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter le Poer, Albion Avenue
- Statutory Address 2:
- Church of St Peter le Poer, Colney Hatch Lane
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:
- Church of St Peter le Poer, Albion Avenue
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter le Poer, Colney Hatch Lane
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 28317 90880
Details
TQ29 SE
6/100
COLNEY HATCH LANE (West Side) and Albion Avenue (North Side)
Church of St Peter le Poer
II
Church 1908-1909. By W.D Caröe. Red brick in English band with tile-on-edge arches, and stone dressings; plain tile roof. Five bay aisled nave with west basement and south
porch; south transept; two bay chancel with one bay Lady Chapel on south and vestry on north; gabled west tower. Chamfered plinth. Windows have stone tracery with cusped lights and leaded glazing with iron stanchions and saddle-bars.
Nave: blind four-light chamfered mullion basement windows to west bays; tile offsets to buttresses between bays and below two-light windows which are set within segmental-arched recesses. Porch at east end has corner buttresses; segmental archway to recessed entrance with splayed reveals and nail-studded panelled double door; peaked gable. North aisle, buttressed as before, has three-light windows. West end of aisles each have a doorway with window above (that to north aisle blocked). Transept: a three-light four-centred-arched window with Perpendicular-style tracery.
Chancel: buttress between transept and Lady Chapel which as a three-light window and canted east end, corbelled below gable, with two-light window. Chancel east window of seven lights, triangular headed, with foundation stone below. On north side a peaked-gabled porch with inner, nail-studded, panelled, doors.
Tower: of three storeys with belfry on west side has end and broad central buttresses, the latter with a one-light and two-light window. Segmental arched openings to two lower storeys comprising a bricked-up window and two-light window to lower storey; offset below next storey which has two 2x6-light windows, the central lights blind (of stone); modillion band below upper storey which has blind pointed-arched arcade with inter-locked arches and capitals to piers. Tile hung gable with wooden belfry opening of two cusped, louvered lights; slender ridge spire with weathervane. East gable similar. South side has pent porch with one-light window above, and belfry dormer as before; similar dormer to north side.
Interior: nave has pointed-arched stone arcades, gallery at west end on stone columns, and pointed-arched boarded vault with moulded ribs. Masonry vault to chancel. C18 panelled pulpit from former Church of St Peter le Poer, Broad Street, the City, built 1788-1792 (demolished 1908).
Listing NGR: TQ2831790880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 199249
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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