NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 311, UPPER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297947
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 311, UPPER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297947
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 311, UPPER 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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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 311, UPPER STREET

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County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31707 83807

Details

ISLINGTON

TQ3183NE UPPER STREET 635-1/59/879 (East side) 29/09/72 No.311 and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: UPPER STREET Congregational Chapel)

GV II

Former Islington Congregational Chapel and school, now a recording studio. 1888-9 by Bonella and Henry John Paull. Red brick laid in Flemish bond, with dressings of stone (now painted), rubbed brick and possibly stucco; clay-tiled roof. Two main storeys over basement. The front to Upper Street has a two-storey wing to the north, and then the main, symmetrical elevation of projecting gabled wing, side wings of one-window range, and projecting, single-storey porches. In the 'Queen Anne' style, and showing the influence of Richard Norman Shaw's Church of St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park. North wing has flat-arched entrance with architrave, storey band, elliptical-arched first-floor window with impost blocks and apron of scrolled profile, flanking pilasters, coving to eaves and pyramidal roof. The porches to the main front have stone segmental-arched entrances with pilasters and cornice, decorative wrought-iron gates and cresting to south porch. The projecting gabled part has two elliptical-arched openings to the basement with recessed windows of a different elliptical profile; four small round-arched windows above with a crenellated storey band over; and then, rising through the main line of the eaves into the gable, a large three-sided oriel with glazing in the tradition of Sparrowe's House, Ipswich, and Richard Norman Shaw, except that the glazing here and elsewhere in the building is of cast-iron, and made by the St Pancras Iron Work Company. Scrolled consoles mask the slope of the mansard roof; cornice over the oriel and date panel '1888' in the apex of the gable. Octagonal lantern on the gable ridge. The side bays have first-floor segmental-arched windows with aprons of decorative profile and windows set almost flush with the wall. The elevation to Gaskin Street has a seven-window range, the easternmost bay projecting as a porch with elliptical-arched entrance, pilasters, fanlight and shell-mould hood with scrolled brackets. The windows reproduce the sequence of Upper Street: elliptical-arched to basement, small round-arched above, and segmental-arched to first floor with aprons of decorative profile and flanked by pilasters. Coving to eaves; three blank cross-gables in the roof. Stack towards south-east corner. Area railings with finials in the style of c.1800. INTERIOR: : dog-leg staircase towards Upper Street with square newel posts, some balusters of cast-iron with palmette ornament, others of turned wood, moulded rail; this staircase now runs only from the basement, through the raised ground floor to first-floor level; on the Gaskin Street side, another staircase of similar design, rising from basement to gallery level. In the former chapel the apse and the gallery at that end survive, with cornice to the apse, the organ made by H.Speechly and Sons in a case in the style of c.1700, the balustrade and three tiers of seats. (Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).

Listing NGR: TQ3170783807

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Legacy System number:: 369408
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.