FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL)

FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL), PENTONVILLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297992
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL)
Statutory Address:: FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL), PENTONVILLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297992
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1989
List Entry Name:: FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL)
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL), PENTONVILLE 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:: FORMER WELSH CONGREGATIONAL UNION CHAPEL (EGLWYS Y TABERNAACL), PENTONVILLE ROAD

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 30605 83000

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/07/2017

TQ3083SE 635-1/63/685

ISLINGTON PENTONVILLE ROAD (South side) Former Welsh Congregational Union Chapel (Eglwys y Tabernaacl)

(Formerly listed as Welsh Congregational Union Chapel (Eglwys y Tabernaacl)) 11/04/89

II Congregational Chapel. 1854. By Henry Hodge. Kentish rag, with copings of Caen stone and window tracery of Ransome's patent siliceous stone; gabled slate roof. Simple unaisled plan. Gothic Revival style, with Perpendicular articulation to early Decorated features. Wheel window with central quatrefoil to east gable; three-light west window of graduated ancets. Six-bay side walls, articulated by tall offset buttresses dividing tall two-light Decorated windows: King's Cross Road elevation has moulded pointed-arched doorways with engaged shafts flanking two-light trefoil-headed basement windows; Pentonville Road elevation has double-gabled west porch of c.1870, with moulded pointed-arched doorways, set in front of two-storey bay with two-light trefoil-headed window.

INTERIOR: well-preserved, with original pews and fittings including blind Gothic arcading to organ pulpit and raised balcony to front. Gallery of 1857, with Gothic arcaded fronts to balcony,supported by cast-iron columns including decorative brackets to west. Angel-carved corbels support six-bay hammerbeam roof with cusping to spandrels.

History: transferred to Welsh Congregational Union in 1889; between 1904 and 1940 its minister was Howell Elvert Lewis, the distinguished poet and hymn writer.

Listing NGR: TQ3060583000

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Legacy System number:: 369201
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.