Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter and Presbytery
PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 4, BACK HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356763
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter and Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 4, BACK HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356763
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter and Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 4, BACK HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 136, CLERKENWELL ROAD
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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:
- PRESBYTERY TO ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 4, BACK HILL
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC ITALIAN CHURCH OF ST PETER, 136, CLERKENWELL ROAD
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 31286 82071
Details
CAMDEN
TQ3182SW
798-1/97/262
CLERKENWELL ROAD (North side),
No.136,
Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter
14/05/74,
II*
Includes: No.4 Presbytery to Roman Catholic Italian Church of St Peter BACK HILL. Roman Catholic church. 1862-3. By John Miller Bryson, based on a previous design of 1853 by Francesco Gualandi. Front to Clerkenwell Road with loggia, superstructure and campanile behind by Francis W Tasker, 1891. Exterior of church hidden but of grey stock brick reinforced internally with hoop iron. Red-brick front to Clerkenwell Road has stucco-faced loggia in quattrocento style with two open round arches surmounted by three niches with statues - including St Peter, and upper storey in English Renaissance style with stucco dressings rising to a pediment enclosing papal arms. Loggia interior with vaulted roof and coats of arms above wooden panelled doors and memorials to the First World War and the Arandora Star.
INTERIOR of church has basilican plan based on San Crisogono, Rome, with unfinished nave of six bays, aisles, transepts and three apses facing west. Ionic nave colonnade of stone, painted to resemble marble, carrying entablature surmounted by round-arched tribune (formerly open) and clerestory. Round arches at entrance to chancel and apsidal sanctuary. Baldacchino with marble columns over high altar. Organ at west end on gallery, flanked by piers surmounted by urns installed by Mssrs Walker 1959 incorporating earlier elements. Painted decoration throughout church by two Piedmontese artists, Arnaud and Gauthier, 1885-6, since the 1950s without the surrounding painted architectural framework that formerly enclosed it. Presbytery attached to church also by Bryson but completed by Wylson and Long, 1862-5. Elevation towards Back Hill in Italianate style with stucco dressings. Windows replaced late C20.
Listing NGR: TQ3128682071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476992
- 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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