Church of St Silas With All Saints
CHURCH OF ST SILAS WITH ALL SAINTS, PENTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208241
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Silas With All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SILAS WITH ALL SAINTS, PENTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208241
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Silas With All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SILAS WITH ALL SAINTS, PENTON STREET
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 SILAS WITH ALL SAINTS, PENTON STREET
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 31048 83302
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3183SW PENTON STREET 635-1/64/678 (North side) 29/09/72 Church of St Silas with All Saints (Formerly Listed as: PENTON STREET Church of St Silas)
II
Anglican church. 1860 by Samuel Sanders Teulon, completed 1863 by E.P.Loftus Brock; chancel added 1884. Kentish ragstone with dressings of stone, and white, yellow and red brick, roof of Welsh slate. Chancel, nave, south aisle, south-west tower. East end has three trefoiled lancets, the central one taller, and angle buttresses; pointed-arched entrance at east end of south aisle with engaged columns having foliage capitals, multi-moulded archivolt, original double doors, head of gauged white and yellow brick, and bracketed and gabled canopy. South aisle of six bays; five bays have one group of three lancets each under a pointed relieving arch, the tympanum filled with herringbone work in white and yellow brick, the second window from the east interrupted by a late C20 door. Offset above relieving arches; parapet interrupted by square, buttresslike piers with low pyramidal pinnacles, now apparently truncated. The clerestory windows are pointed-arched with two lancets below a rose, the rose exhibiting a different form of plate tracery in each window; the windows have heads of yellow brick, probably rebuilt and extending as springing bands, and rise above the parapet into their own gables. Two identical pointed-arched entrances, one occupying the westernmost bay of the south aisle and one beyond that: pointed arched entrance with engaged columns having foliage capitals and multi-moulded archivolt under hoodmould, head of gauged white and yellow brick, and a gable above each entrance, decorative in the case of the eastern entrance; pointed-arched doorcase with billet moulding to both entrances, original panelled door to left. The west end has three two-light lancets below blank quatrefoils, heads of gauged yellow brick which extend as sill and springing bands; two small outer lancets with bands of gauged yellow brick and a dripmould between them. Rose window in gable set in a spherical triangle of gauged yellow brick, the tracery of inventive geometrical form; lancet to apex of gable. South-west tower with two lancets to south, a band of white brick above with yellow brick diapering, stepped brick corbels to eaves, with red brick patterns between them, and pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: . Chancel of brick, painted, the rest of the interior plastered. Nave arcade of six bays; west gallery; some space at west end of nave enclosed in C20; wooden ceiling. Simple wooden pulpit in a Gothic style. (The Architectural Outsiders: Matthew Saunders: 'Samuel Teulon 1812-1873': London: 1985-).
Listing NGR: TQ3104883302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369195
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saunders, M, The Architectural Outsiders in Samuel Teulon 1812-1873, (1985)
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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