MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING

MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING, 47A, BALLS POND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264887
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING
Statutory Address:: MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING, 47A, BALLS POND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1264887
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING, 47A, BALLS POND ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MABERLY CHAPEL AND ATTACHED SCHOOL BUILDING, 47A, BALLS POND ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 33364 84764

Details

The following building shall be added; BALLS POND ROAD 1. 5013 (South Side) No 47A (Maberly Chapel and attached school TQ 3384 24/54 building) II

2. Independent chapel. c1820-5; school to rear built in 1844. Flemish bond yellow brick with stucco facade; hipped corrugated asbestos roof. Classical style. Pediment front elevation, of symmetrical 2-storey, 3-window range. Flights to stone steps, flanked by wrought-iron railings, to two wooden entrance porches: each porch has panelled doors, 2 of originally 4 corner pilasters and heavy moulded entablature. Central ground-floor bay has late C19 plate-glass 4-pane sash set in eared architrave; similar first-floor sashes set in eared architraves with floating cornices. Pilasters at each end of facade, rise to raised band beneath pediment, which has legend "MABERLY CHAPEL" set in tympanum. 3-window range side walls. Interior: Galleries on 3 sides, with cornices and classical detailing to balcony fronts, supported by cast-iron columns. Winder stairs and some original panelling, especially around east vestibule. Subsidiary features: school to rear, built 1844 of Flemish bond brick with hipped double-pitched pantile roof. Rear elevation, of 2-window range, has gauged cambered arches over blocked windows; left side elevation has pairs of windows placed either side of semi- circular arched doorways inscribed "Boys" and "Girls". History: became an Independent Chapel in 1826: its first minister was Robert Philip (1826-55), a well-known writer of sermons and popular religious manuals sold in England and the United States. A sabbath school was established in 1835, and £3,000 spent on new school buildings in 1844. The chapel takes its name from William Maberly, on whose land it was built.

Listing NGR: TQ3336484764

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Legacy System number:: 426680
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.