Soley Mews Chapel Young Womens Christian Association
SOLEY MEWS CHAPEL, SOLEY MEWS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195670
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Soley Mews Chapel Young Womens Christian Association
- Statutory Address:
- SOLEY MEWS CHAPEL, SOLEY MEWS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195670
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Jul-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Soley Mews Chapel Young Womens Christian Association
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOLEY MEWS CHAPEL, SOLEY MEWS
- Statutory Address 2:
- YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, LLOYD SQUARE
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:
- SOLEY MEWS CHAPEL, SOLEY MEWS
- Statutory Address:
- YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, LLOYD SQUARE
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 31133 82832
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3182NW LLOYD BAKER STREET 635-1/68/987 Studio (Former Chapel)
GV II
Former Chapel of the House of Retreat, Lloyd Baker Street and Lloyd Square. 1891-2, Ernest Newton. Stock brick with traceried windows in stone, slate roofs. Late Decorated Gothic. Blank west (sanctuary) end. North and south walls with three high three-light traceried clerestory windows on either side with transoms in heads. Low, lean-to north aisle with three-light, square-headed windows with cusped heads. Narrow south passage-aisle. East end with high three-light traceried window in apex of gable. Internally divided into three and a half bays with projecting, windowless west end for sanctuary. Plastered walls. Flat-faced arcade with attached moulded stone ribs on face rising through a strong, similarly ribbed stone stringcourse below clerestory windows up to a deep, projecting, richly moulded wallplate in two stages. Elliptical boarded timber roof divided into panels, enriched over former sanctuary. Aisle roofs boarded and panelled. East gallery. Most original internal fittings no longer extant, but portions of screens dividing aisles from nave and front east end gallery survive, in an original Arts and Crafts Gothic style, with moulded and chamfered dividing mullions and stylized foliage patterns. Beam and painted cross on the sanctuary (west) wall. Some stained glass in aisle windows.
Listing NGR: TQ3113382832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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