Formerly St Pauls Presbyterian Church, Now Part of Herbert Brown Lenox Limited Industrial Premises
FORMERLY ST PAULS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NOW PART OF HERBERT BROWN LENOX LIMITED INDUSTRIAL PREMISES, WEST FERRY ROAD E14
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065817
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Formerly St Pauls Presbyterian Church, Now Part of Herbert Brown Lenox Limited Industrial Premises
- Statutory Address:
- FORMERLY ST PAULS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NOW PART OF HERBERT BROWN LENOX LIMITED INDUSTRIAL PREMISES, WEST FERRY ROAD E14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1065817
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Formerly St Pauls Presbyterian Church, Now Part of Herbert Brown Lenox Limited Industrial Premises
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMERLY ST PAULS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NOW PART OF HERBERT BROWN LENOX LIMITED INDUSTRIAL PREMISES, WEST FERRY ROAD E14
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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:
- FORMERLY ST PAULS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, NOW PART OF HERBERT BROWN LENOX LIMITED INDUSTRIAL PREMISES, WEST FERRY ROAD E14
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 37262 78875
Details
In the entry for:- West Ferry Road, E14 TQ 3778 (East Side) 30/896 27.9.73 St Paul's Presbyterian Church II
The description shall be amended to read:-
Former Presbyterian church. 1859, by T E Knightly. Brown Flemish band brick with stone and polychromatic brick dressings; gabled slate roof. One-cell plan with square sanctuary to east end. North Italian Romanesque style. Gabled west front, of 3 stages, has semi-circular polychromatic brick arches over central doorway with cushion capitals to engaged stone shafts, panelled double doors and carved stone tympanum flanked by 2 boarded cast-iron windows; first-storey has continuous arcade of 9 semi- circular polychromatic brick arches set on stone colonettes with cushion capitals and moulded bases; panelled stone-coped parapet flanks gabled upper stage with similar arcade of 5 arches.
Four-bay north and south elevations have semi-circular polychromatic brick arches, over 4-light cast-iron windows; heavy stepped brick eaves courses; clerestorey, clad in fish-scale slates, has 3-light windows each with stone semi-circular arcade set on colonettes with cushion capitals and moulded bases; one window to south has been removed for inserted mid C20 entry. Plain extension of 1905 added at right angles to east end. Interior: semi- circular sanctuary arch set on stone colonettes with inverted volutes to cushion capitals; stone steps to balcony with panelled front set on cast- iron columns; 4-bay roof with arch braces built of laminated timber, an early example of its use. Foundation stone, to right of west door, was laid by John Scott Prussel - a Scottish shipbuilder who had worked at the nearby Napier yard on the Great Eastern and other ships; there is a tradition that St Paul's was built to serve the needs of Scottish ironworkers brought to work on the Great Eastern.
(Article by R J M Carr in Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol 3 (1981, pp 264-6)
------------------------------------ 1. WEST FERRY ROAD E14 4431 (East Side) Formerly St Pauls Presbyterian Church, now part of Herbert Morris Brown Lenox Ltd. Industrial Premises TQ 3778 30/896 II 2. Later C19. Remarkable for use of colour and arcading. Stock brick with red and blue brick and white stone dressings. Slate roof. Facade of 3 storeys. 3 round headed arches to ground floor, above, brick band surmounted by 9 bay arcade. Deeply recessed centre 3 bay windows; flanking and outer blind bays each side, of single window. Above, shaped string course over panelled, coped blocking course. 3rd storey of 5 bays width with similar arcading to that of 2nd storey. Roundel above under shallow gable. Arcaded clerestory at sides of building. Heavy brick eaves cornice. 4 large round arched windows with iron tracery along side of building. 1 window space now filled with doors.
Listing NGR: TQ3726278875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206343
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carr, R J M, Industrial Archaeology Review in Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. 3, (1981), 264-6
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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