Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and Presbytery
SACRED HEART OF JESUS CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, EDEN GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195584
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- SACRED HEART OF JESUS CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, EDEN GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195584
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SACRED HEART OF JESUS CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, EDEN GROVE
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:
- SACRED HEART OF JESUS CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, EDEN GROVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Islington (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30787 85132
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3085SE EDEN GROVE 635-1/36/1018 Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and Presbytery
II
Church and presbytery. 1869-70. Founded by Canon Cornelius Keens, designed by F.H. Pownall. Yellow stock brick with white and black brick banding, some stone dressing. Slate roofs. Early English style. High gabled west front with low north aisle abuts large square tower. Linked to presbytery through archway with 4/4 sashes over. Stair turret with steep roof. Narrow gabled wing three storeys plus basement, two-window-range of 4/4 sashes. Church interior faced with red brick and black banding, stone dressings including carved stiff leaf capitals to nave arcades by sarmer and Brindley. Tall nave with clerestory and hammerbeam roof Stations of the cross, painted carved oak in high relief by Anton Drape, 1909. Sanctuary with green and white marble altar, side altars and gallery remodelled 1960-1 by A.H. Archard. (RCHM: Islington Chapels: 1992-).
Listing NGR: TQ3078785132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Temple, P, Islington chapels an architectural guide to nonconformist and Roman Catholic places of worship in the London Borough of Islington, (1992)
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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