The Anglican Chapel
THE ANGLICAN CHAPEL, HARROW ROAD W10
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1190995
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1964
- List Entry Name:
- The Anglican Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE ANGLICAN CHAPEL, HARROW ROAD W10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1190995
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Anglican Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ANGLICAN CHAPEL, HARROW ROAD W10
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:
- THE ANGLICAN CHAPEL, HARROW ROAD W10
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Kensington and Chelsea (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 23171 82536
Details
249/80/139 HARROW ROAD W10 30-OCT-64 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY The Anglican Chapel (Formerly listed as: HARROW ROAD W10 KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY CHAPEL)
GV I
Anglican chapel, colonnades and catacombs. 1835-36. By John Griffith for the General Cemetery Company. Portland stone and stucco. Central chapel consists of a Greek Doric tetrastyle portico with pediment over baseless fluted columns, raised on a podium with steps in centre; inner, side and rear walls faced with channelled rustication; front elevation comprises a central door with surround, with a smaller door to the north; rear elevation with paired pilasters flanking rectangular window, with segmental window above. Chapel flanked by three-bay colonnades, with nine-bay returns to the north and south: each bay comprises a pair of fluted Doric columns set between pilasters, with anthemion terminals above the parapet over each column. Each of the north and south colonnades terminates in square pavilions, formerly roofed: the western ones contain marble memorial sculptures commemorating (in the north) the family of John Lough and (south) Robert Sievier, carved by Lough and Sievier respectively; other memorial plaques along the southern colonnade.
Interior: antechamber with coffered ceiling screened from chapel with a pair of Doric columns. Chapel square in plan, with short extensions to each side; centre covered with a Soanian domical vault, fluted, with a central rosette within a Greek key-enriched border; channelled pendentives with circular rosettes. Doric frieze carried on pilasters. West window with modern glass depicting Christ in Majesty; segmental window inside Greek key border above.
Catacombs: the chapel and colonnades stand on top of an extensive system of catacombs, consisting of a central spine corridor with six corridors on each side: vaulted brick walls and ceilings, York stone floors and shelves; each corridor is lined with compartments filled with shelving for coffins, some of which are concealed with marble covers and others screened with cast iron grilles. Each corridor terminates in a semi-circular ventilation shaft. In centre of the spine corridor stands a hydraulic catafalque (restored 1995-97), used for lowering coffins from the chapel to the catacombs.
History: the chapel was damaged by bombing in 1940 and restored in 1954 under E.R. Bingham Harriss.
Listing NGR: TQ2375182538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 203821
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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