Church of St Mellitus and Attached Presbytery
CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, TOLLINGTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297983
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mellitus and Attached Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, TOLLINGTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297983
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mellitus and Attached Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, TOLLINGTON PARK
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.
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MELLITUS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, TOLLINGTON PARK
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 30860 87087
Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3087SE TOLLINGTON PARK 635-1/9/860 (North East side) 29/09/72 Church of St Mellitus and attached presbytery
II
Church built as a New Court Congregational Church, now Roman Catholic. 1871 by C.G.Searle. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond with stone dressings; roof obscured by parapet. Two tiers of windows over basement; five-window range to Tollington Park, seven-window range to returns. The principal elevation is the ritual west end to Tollington Park: steps up to giant tetrastyle Corinthian portico with full entablature, dentil and modillion cornice, and oculus with elaborate foliage surround in the tympanum of the pediment; the portico frames three entrances to the church, flat-arched with moulded stone architraves, consoles carrying segmental pediments and panelled doors of original design; with a keyed oculus over each; the outer bays have flat-arched windows with moulded stone architraves, the lower ones having keystones which link up with the bracketed sills of the round-arched eared and shouldered window above; the entablature continues over these bays and to first bay of return, with balustraded parapet to the outer bays, the parapet stepped up behind the portico. The first bay of the return detailed as for the outer bays of the front; the rest of the return in Evershot Road has giant Doric pilasters with two tiers of windows with moulded stone architraves and keystones between, the lower windows flat-arched, the upper round-arched; brick dentil cornice to parapet; the north return is detailed more simply. Ancillary building to east end, now the presbytery, possibly of a date with the church: three storeys over basement, five-window range; plain stone architraves to segmental-arched windows to ground and first floors, round-arched to second floor; external stack between fourth and fifth bays. Two wrought iron scrolled lamp pendants between the west entrances to the church; lamp standards with elaborate columns to walls flanking steps up to portico. The interior of the church is a single galleried space with an aedicule at the east end of giant Corinthian columns in antis, suppporting entablature with dentil and modillion cornice; curved gallery carried on cast-iron Corinthian columns with elaborate ironwork to the balcony; panelled roof coved to the centre; wrought-iron lighting pendants of late C19 date.
Listing NGR: TQ3086087087
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 369388
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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