The Danish Church
THE DANISH CHURCH, ST KATHERINES PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245872
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Danish Church
- Statutory Address:
- THE DANISH CHURCH, ST KATHERINES PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245872
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Danish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DANISH CHURCH, ST KATHERINES PRECINCT
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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:
- THE DANISH CHURCH, ST KATHERINES PRECINCT
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 28647 83280
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2883SE ST KATHARINE'S PRECINCT
798-1/82/1517 (East side)
10/06/54 The Danish Church
(Formerly Listed as:
ST KATHARINE'S PRECINCT
The Danish Church, No.4 (The
Pastor's House), No.5 (St
Katharine's Hall))
GV II*
St Katharine's College Chapel, now the Danish Lutheran Church
in London. 1826-1828. By Ambrose Poynter. For the Royal
Hospital of St Katharine. Restored 1969. Grey brick with stone
dressings; west end with stone facing. Tall, collegiate type
chapel in Perpendicular style of 7 bays. Attached to and
flanking the church, No.4 The Pastor's House and No.5 St
Katharine's Hall (qv).
EXTERIOR: west end gabled with octagonal corner turrets having
arrow slit windows, enriched above the roof line and
terminating in spires. Pointed arch doorway with wooden door
and square-headed label with enriched spandrels and stops.
Above this, a tall 7-light traceried window. A hexagonal clock
surmounted by a crown and flanked by coats of arms in the apex
of the facade. North and south facades with a high, tall
3-light traceried window to each bay, above which the cornice
and blocking course. East end with similar traceried window to
west end.
INTERIOR: simple and whitewashed, with two figures of Moses
and John the Baptist late C17 by Caius Cibber brought from the
former Danish Seamen's Mission in Commercial Road E14; former
church fittings and monuments dispersed c1950 between the
Tower of London and St Katharine's Foundation, Butcher Row
E14.
HISTORICAL NOTE: St Katharine's College Chapel was built to
replace a chapel forming part of the religious hospice,
founded in 1148 by Queen Matilda and later known as the
Hospital of St Katharine, on a site next to the Tower of
London; in 1825 the original site was made into St Katharine's
Dock. The patronage of the chapel had always rested with the
Queen of England; Queen Alexandra, Danish wife of King Edward
VII, granted it to the Danish community in London.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town,
St Pancras II: London: -1938: 101-115).
Listing NGR: TQ2864783281
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , (1938), 101-115
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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