Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel

FETTER LANE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LANGTHORNE ROAD E11

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065592
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel
Statutory Address:
FETTER LANE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LANGTHORNE ROAD E11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1065592
Date first listed:
24-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
FETTER LANE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LANGTHORNE ROAD E11

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FETTER LANE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL, LANGTHORNE ROAD E11

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

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Waltham Forest (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 38571 86063

Details

TQ 38 NE LANGTHORNE ROAD Leyton, Ell 2/42 (south side)

- Fetter Lane Congregational Chapel

- II

Church and former Sunday school. Dated 1899. By P Morley Horder. Roughcast. Stone dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof to eaves. Corner site. Galleried chapel to upper 2 storeys with former schoolroom below. Six paired bays. Arts and Crafts manner. Gabled west end with flush mullioned Serlian window to gable and central part of facade breaking forward slightly. Entrance to right. 3-light mullioned windows to first floor. Returns to right and left with prominent battered buttresses between bays, linked to form segmental reveals around upper windows. Windows segmental headed to ground floor, square above; mullioned, in timber to ground floor, in stone above. Small panes, leaded lights. Projecting 3-storey north porch with arched entrance. Interior with cast iron columns supporting galleries to north, west and south. Short chancel with Serlian motif forming chancel arch. Central pulpit in ornate late C17 style; panelling to chancel. Nave roof comprising segmental barrel vault. Design of church interior said to recall the original Fetter Lane Chapel of 1660.

Listing NGR: TQ3857186063

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
206909
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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