FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES

FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, BAYHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272269
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, BAYHAM STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272269
Date first listed:: 14-May-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, BAYHAM STREET

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER CHAPEL TO ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS ALMSHOUSES, BAYHAM STREET

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 29097 83796

Details

CAMDEN

TQ2983NW BAYHAM STREET 798-1/77/61 (East side) 14/05/74 Former chapel to St Martin-in-the Fields Almshouses

GV II

Former chapel to St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses (qv), situated centrally at rear of houses. 1880-81. By H Jacques. For the Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Yellow stock brick with red brick and stone dressings; slated hipped roof with decorative red ridge tiles. Single storey with 3 bays and hexagonal sanctuary with projecting side chapel on north side. Gothic style with lancets having trefoil heads. INTERIOR: converted into house with floored-over gallery. Red and white striped banding on pointed chancel arch and above 3 pointed windows at east end. Open timber roof. Some encaustic floor tiles at east end. HISTORICAL NOTE: Jacques was responsible for a scheme of improvements to the almshouses in 1880-1 that also included an infirmary and matron's residence. The former chapel forms a group with St Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouses (qv). (Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood, St Pancras part IV: London: -1952: 136).

Listing NGR: TQ2909783796

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 476639
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Survey of London' in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951), 136

Legal

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