Church of St Augustine of Canterbury

CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, ARCHWAY ROAD N6

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1358860
Date first listed:
10-May-1974
List Entry Name:
Church of St Augustine of Canterbury
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, ARCHWAY ROAD N6
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1358860
Date first listed:
10-May-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
08-May-1997
List Entry Name:
Church of St Augustine of Canterbury
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, ARCHWAY ROAD N6

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY, ARCHWAY ROAD N6

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Haringey (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29042 87562

Details

TQ 2987 ARCHWAY ROAD, N6
(East side)
800/41/145 Church of Saint Augustine
of Canterbury (formerly
listed under Langton Park
Road)

10.05.74 II

Anglican church. Begun 1885 by J.D.Sedding; west front completed in 1916 by J. Harold Gibbons. Body of church in stock brick with red brick and stone dressing. Tiled roof. Eight bay nave, chancel and aisles. West front to Archway road in highly individual free Gothic style, with prominent west tower with pagoda roof sweeping down at the sides to nave roof level. Huge gabled transverse buttresses at angles and long stepped buttresses in front. Flamboyant tracery to high west window. Projecting narthex with central part faced in stone with roof figures in high relief, and other pictorial carvings. INTERIOR: nave runs straight into chancel. Arcades on solid masonry piers. Clerestory windows, slit lancets in wide pointed arches. Lady chapel with barrelled roof, fitted out by Henry Wilson and completed c.1930. East end remodelled in 1925 by J. Harold Gibbons following fire: new organ gallery replaces 3 original bays. Hunter organ, 1926. Altar and reredos panelling, 1938 by Adrian Scott; altar front by Linthout of Bruges. Figures above the altar, 1958; shrine to Mary in east nave, 1962, Laurence King. Large undercroft below west end.

Listing NGR: TQ2904287562

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
201419
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.

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