Angel Baptist Church and Attached Iron Railings
ANGEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, CHADWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280178
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Baptist Church and Attached Iron Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ANGEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, CHADWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280178
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Baptist Church and Attached Iron Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANGEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, CHADWELL STREET
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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:
- ANGEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND ATTACHED IRON RAILINGS, CHADWELL 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 31444 82953
Details
TQ3182NW
635-1/68/204
ISLINGTON
CHADWELL STREET (South side)
Angel Baptist Church & attached iron railings
29/09/72
GV
II
Formerly known as: Providence Chapel.
Formerly known as: Mount Zion Chapel.
Small non-conformist church. c.1823-24 for Thomas Elliott Esq, patron, for Calvanistic Methodists.
Red stock brick, stucco front facade; Welsh slate gabled roof. Classical style chapel of rectangular plan; forms part of contemporary terrace in Chadwell Street (q.v. Nos. 4-5 and Nos. 6-11). Two storeys; four-window range 1:2:1 plus two-window range to side walls. Projecting pedimented central bay. Round-arched 10/6 sashes with margin lights and curved and radial glazing bars set within arched recessed panels; centre sashes with moulded archivolts and impost strings. Central bay framed by plain pilaster strips and shallow pediment. Irregular ground-floor tetrastyle Ionic portico with deep entablature and flat roof; flanked by empty niches. Twin centre entrances with double panelled doors and plain rectangular overlights; central sash between entrances flanked by cast iron railings. Stucco cornice and blocking course; stucco parapet above pediment with urns to corners.
INTERIOR: plain classical treatment but much altered. Two-aisled plan with late C19 open timber roof and matchboarded ceiling; tie-beams supported on large, elaborate corbels. Plain painted plaster walls with C20 dado. Pulpit wall with central aedicule; dentiled pediment rises into first floor level supported by fluted pilasters and flanked on ground-floor by architraved C20 doors with original heavy entablatures and high broken pediments. Clerestory level with round-arched windows. 1884 high-level pine pulpit in debased Gothic style (shortened c1985) of crude post and rail construction with turned balusters, projecting front and flanking steps; Gothic-style oak lectern. Plain pine pews of same date and style as pulpit with main rows to centre, raking rows to sides. Steep, curved gallery to rear of chapel with plain panelled front, supported on slender cast iron columns and reached by flanking staircases to sides. C20 partition separates sanctuary from vestibule.
(Report prepared by Philip Temple for English Heritage: Islington Chapels: London: 1989-1989: 1-4/CHADWELL STREET).
Listing NGR: TQ3144482953
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Temple, P, Survey of Nonconformist Churches and Chapels in Greater London in Islington Chapels London, (1989)
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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