Church of St Luke and Attached Walls and Gate Piers to Churchyard
CHURCH OF ST LUKE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD, HILLMARTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207525
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke and Attached Walls and Gate Piers to Churchyard
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD, HILLMARTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207525
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Luke and Attached Walls and Gate Piers to Churchyard
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST LUKE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD, HILLMARTON 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 LUKE AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO CHURCHYARD, HILLMARTON 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 30347 85406
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3085SW HILLMARTON ROAD 635-1/35/503 (North side) 29/09/72 Church of St Luke and attached walls and gate piers to churchyard
II
Anglican church. c.1859-60; the north transept destroyed in the Second World War and replaced 1961. By Charles Lee. Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings. Chancel, nave, north and south transepts, north and south aisles, south porch, and north-west tower. East window pointed-arched with five lights and curvilinear tracery; north transept main window similar, the rest in the transept flat-arched. Three aisle windows between buttresses, with two trefoiled lights; corbelled parapet; clerestory windows four-centred with two trefoiled lights; late C20 dormer with air vent in north aisle roof. West window pointed- arched with five lights and curvilinear tracery; trefoiled spherical triangle in gable above; gabled south porch. Tower has a gabled, stone-roofed, porch with pointed-arched openings and many shafts to front and entrance, angels to kneelers, and low-relief carving to tympanum. Tower of three stages, the setback buttresses gabled to the first stage, offset to the second and gabled to the third; stair tower to north-east corner; cusped Lombard frieze and ballflower ornament to eaves of broach spire with two-light lucarnes and short gabled buttresses to alternate faces of octagonal spire. Low stone gate piers to corner of Penn Road and Hillmarton Road, gabled with buttresses, lesser crossgables now lacking finials and pierced quatrefoil decoration; two smaller gabled piers also with quatrefoil decoration to either side; walls of random rubble with coping for c.30 metres in Hillmarton Road and c.50 metres in Penn Road. INTERIOR: . The church interior now consists of chancel, nave, south transept and north porch only, the rest partitioned off for office and church use. Chancel arch with double chamfer and chamfered inner order carried on corbelled colonnettes; the chancel floor is covered with marble and extends into the nave to the end of the north transept bay, terminated by low walls. Four-bay arcade to nave, with a double chamfer and continuous hoodmould with ballflower stops. Large panelled organ in south transept with original painted decoration to pipework. Font at west end, square in plan, carried on clustered quadruple colonnettes at each corner, and decorated with emblems of the Evangelists. Panelled roof to chancel, nave roof with arched braces carried on corbelled colonnettes.
Listing NGR: TQ3034785406
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369014
- 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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