Church of St Mary and Attached Walls, Piers and Gates
CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139083
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and Attached Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, PRIORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139083
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary and Attached Walls, Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, PRIORY ROAD
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 MARY AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND GATES, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 25670 84018
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2584SE PRIORY ROAD
798-1/59/1352 (East side)
14/05/74 Church of St Mary and attached
walls, piers and gates
GV II
Church. 1856-62. By FJ and Horace Herbert Francis. Coursed
Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings. Slated roof.
Sanctuary with southern chapel and northern vestry, transepts,
4-bay nave with clerestory and lean-to aisles, and south-west
tower. Middle-pointed Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: entrances in south side of tower and west end with
moulded pointed arches on colonnettes and double doors. Tower
has diagonal buttresses, clock on south face, louvred belfry
openings and broach spire with lucarnes. 5-light east and west
windows; 4-light transepts. Aisles with corbel table.
Clerestory with unusual 3-light windows under shallow gables
linked to pilasters flanked by colonnettes; Lombard frieze.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted to have a fragment of an
early C15 brass, being a nun's head, possibly Emma de St Omer
the prioress, set in the north transept. Stained glass in
chancel by Clayton and Bell; memorial window in north aisle
commemorating RJ Pitcher, organist and Professor of Singing at
the Guildhall School of Music who invented a device called the
Techniquer to help novice organists master the pedals.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached ragstone walls with gate piers
and cast-iron gates to entrances.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built on the assumed site of the nunnery of
Kilburn.
(RCHME: London, Vol. II, West London: 1925-: 39).
Listing NGR: TQ2567084018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the historical monuments in London Volume 2 West London excluding Westminster Abbey, (1925)
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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