Church of St George the Martyr
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245485
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George the Martyr
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245485
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George the Martyr
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN 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:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Camden (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30362 81901
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3081NW QUEEN SQUARE
798-1/100/1365 (West side)
24/10/51 Church of St George the Martyr
GV II*
Church. c1706. Built by Arthur Tooley, repaired late C18.
Recast 1867-9 by SS Teulon and restored 1952 and 1989. Stucco
with rusticated lower portion. Single storey, rectangular plan
with chancel to the south added by Teulon who almost entirely
altered the exterior.
EXTERIOR: Queen Square facade with Gothic porch to right of
pedimented central projecting bay with 3 buttresses, the
central buttress forming a column between two architraved,
round-headed windows and an architraved oculus above.
Buttresses surmounted by statues of praying angels. Beneath
the windows 4 roundels containing carved reliefs of the
symbols of the 4 Evangelists. To either side of this bay, 3
rounded-arched, traceried windows. Entablature and projecting
cornice. Cosmo Place return pedimented with central
round-arched entrance and 4 windows. Over west end, small
square-plan tower with Gothic canopies (east face shielding a
clock), and surmounted by zinc covered spirelet with louvred
gablets.
INTERIOR: also remodelled, the present column and roof system
being inserted by Teulon who took down all the galleries save
that to the north which he retained and remodelled.
Fittings: the fine original reredos was retained on the east
wall when Teulon reordered the church with a new south chancel
with full fittings including a reredos with mosaic inlay.
Stalls, pulpit, lectern, parclose screen and altar rails also
by Teulon; other fittings include font, organ and case.
HISTORICAL NOTE: St George the Martyr was built as a chapel of
ease for St Andrew's, Holborn, and became a parish church in
1723.
Listing NGR: TQ3036281901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477826
- 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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