Caledonian Road Methodist Church and Attached Railings
CALEDONIAN ROAD METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CALEDONIAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205354
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Caledonian Road Methodist Church and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CALEDONIAN ROAD METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CALEDONIAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205354
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Caledonian Road Methodist Church and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CALEDONIAN ROAD METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CALEDONIAN 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:
- CALEDONIAN ROAD METHODIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, CALEDONIAN ROAD
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 30576 84760
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3084NE CALEDONIAN ROAD 635-1/44/128 (West side) Caledonian Road Methodist Church and attached railings
GV II
Formerly known as: Primitive Methodist Chapel CALEDONIAN ROAD. Non-conformist Methodist chapel, formerly Primitive Methodist. 1870; restored 1953; internal alterations c.1972. By T & W Stone; William Goodman, builder. Buff brick with stone and red brick decoration especially for alternate voussoirs; projecting eaves to roof, of which materials obscured. Handsome Italianate style chapel of rectangular plan. Two storeys; 4-window range to main elevation, and 5-window range to right-hand return wall in Market Road. Symmetrical facade to Caledonian Road: projecting ground-floor to full-width of front elevation for entrance porch and lobbies to gallery stairs. Central doorway flanked by triple round-arched windows carried on cast-iron columns. Memorial plaques beneath windows. Stone string-course and narrow cornice, parapet with Greek cross motif picked out in red brick. Broken pediment above doorway containing name plaque. Upper storey with round-arched windows with impost strings. Frieze above repeats the Greek cross decoration. Sharply projecting cornice. Window frames of cast-iron and comprise 3 circular lights, arranged vertically (top light opens on alternate windows). Market Road elevation with basement area: ground-floor sashes with segmental heads; upper floor sashes as on main facade. INTERIOR: : marred by addition of walls beneath gallery. Wooden gallery supported on slender cast-iron columns; ornamental cast-iron panels beneath handrail. Original seats. Coved and coffered ceiling, ribs resting on ornamental corbels. C19 organ but installed 1930s. One of the best-designed and best-executed chapels in Islington. (Survey of Nonconformist chapels and places of worship: Temple, P: Islington Chapels: London: 1989-: CALEDONIAN ROAD,N7).
Listing NGR: TQ3057684760
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368619
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Temple, P, Survey of Nonconformist Churches and Chapels in Greater London in Islington Chapels London, (1989)
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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