CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, ST LEONARD'S ROAD

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1864-5 by J W Morris, restored 1901 and 1955, converted into flats c2000. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065049
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, ST LEONARD'S ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1065049
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, ST LEONARD'S ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, ST LEONARD'S ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 38066 81583

Details

788/19/701 ST LEONARD'S ROAD 27-SEP-73 Former Church of St Michael and All Angels

GV II 1864-5 by J W Morris, restored 1901 and 1955, converted into flats c2000.

MATERIALS: Stock brick with a little red and black brick polychrome banding and also polychrome to the heads of the arches. Limestone dressings. Slate roofs.

PLAN: Nave, lower, short chancel, N and S aisles, N and S double transepts, SE tower.

EXTERIOR: This large polychrome brick church draws Early English architecture of the C13 for its details. The most prominent features are the W end, fronting directly on to St Leonard's Road, and the SE tower. The former has a triple-arched entrance with moulded arches and shafts in the reveals, all under polychrome heads. Above these are three straight-sided gables. The W end fenestration has two two-light openings with modern detailing above which is an oculus filled with plate tracery comprising trefoils and quatrefoils. At the corners are angle buttresses. The aisles have lean-to roofs and two-light windows in their W faces. The tower is unbuttressed and has three stages. The largest of these is the belfry stage which has tall, plain paired openings. Above is a short, slate-covered pyramid spire with a gable on each side over a clock face. The E end of the chancel has an E window of three graded lancets. There are paired windows in the lean-to aisles and there is a clerestory with three single light windows per bay. In the angle between the nave and S aisle there is a quarter-round stair turret. Conversion into flats has led to the roofs being interspersed with numerous square skylights.

INTERIOR: The interior has been divided up and filled with multiple flats.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: None

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Immediately S of the church is a large, former vicarage, built of stock brick with minor details of polychromy in a matching style to the church. To the S of this is a Portland limestone First World War memorial by A R Adams, 1920, depicting Christ blessing a medieval soldier. To the N of the church is a two-storey institute built of stock brick with its gable facing the church. Together these form a group.

HISTORY: The present building was erected in 1864-5 to replace a mission church of 1861. It was restored in 1901 and again in 1955. Now it has been converted into flats. Morris, the architect, is not a well-known name, but was clearly capable of ambitious and impressive designs, as here.

SOURCES: Bridget Cherry, Charles O'Brien and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: London 5: East, 2005, p 657. Basil F L Clarke, Parish Churches of London, 1966, p 166.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The former church of St Michael and All Angels is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a High Victorian brick former church (now converted into residential accommodation) in the C13 style with polychrome detailing and a prominent tower which forms a local landmark, in this much-altered area. * The external interest is high enough to offset the major changes to the interior, which is now deprived of special interest. * The church, vicarage, institute and war memorial form a coherent group.

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Legacy System number:: 206228
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.