VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, SHENLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103639
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
Statutory Address:: VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, SHENLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103639
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT
Statutory Address 1:: VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, SHENLEY LANE

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

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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:: VOLUNTARY MISSIONARY MOVEMENT, SHENLEY LANE

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: London Colney
National Grid Reference:: TL 17484 02940

Details

TL 10 SE LONDON COLNEY SHENLEY LANE (west side) LONDON COLNEY

13/126 Voluntary Missionary Movement -

GV II

Training centre, built c1927, probably by Sir Ninian Comper as an extension to All Saints Pastoral Centre. Purple brick with red brick and stone dressings. Machine tile roof. T-shaped building with symmetrical E elevation in a Neo-Georgian style. 2-3 storeys. The front is 11 windows with 1-window slightly projecting gable ends. Banded brick quoins to gable ends; single pilaster-quoins set 2 window in from each gable forming a 5-part elevation. Central part has 5 1st floor casement roundels. Ground floor with a shallow blank arcade. Central recessed door with an inset cemented porch having Tuscan columns and moulded entablature. Glazing bar casements each side. Intermediate bays with sashes to ground floor and casements above. Gable ends with sashes in moulded round-arched frames on upper floor. On the central ridge is a square wooden belfry tower with ogee copper hood and weathervane. N end elevations is 1:2:1 windows with banded quoins. On S end is a single storey loggia connecting with All Saints Pastoral Central (qv). (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1748402940

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Legacy System number:: 164037
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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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.