Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall
SHOREDITCH TABERNACLE CHURCH HALL, 18-20, HACKNEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360780
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHOREDITCH TABERNACLE CHURCH HALL, 18-20, HACKNEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360780
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-2002
- List Entry Name:
- Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOREDITCH TABERNACLE CHURCH HALL, 18-20, HACKNEY ROAD
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:
- SHOREDITCH TABERNACLE CHURCH HALL, 18-20, HACKNEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 33574 82695
Details
788/0/10158 HACKNEY ROAD
10-JUN-02 18-20
Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall
II
Baptist Sunday School Hall. 1890-1. Designed by George Baines for the Shoreditch Tabernacle Church. London stock brick with red brick and stone dressings. Slate roofs. Two storey.
Godfrey's Place faÎade has off-centre doorway with plank door, 2-light overlight and flanking window to left. To right a large Venetian window with stone mullions and transoms, round headed central window has a brick head topped with a brick parapet. Tall opening to right. To left two pairs of cross casement window and above three 9-pane windows all with segmental red brick heads. Further section to left has single doorway on ground floor and two 9-pane windows on the upper floor.
South faÎade has tall perimeter wall, section to left rebuilt, with above and behind a brick hexagon with a 9-pane window to each of the three visible fronts. Above and behind the clerestorey to the hexagonal hall two 9-pane windows to each face.
INTERIOR has two storey school room with classrooms off on each floor. Originally these rooms had moveable partitions, though many have now been made permanent. Upper floors supported on cast-iron columns, with further columns supporting roof and clerestorey. Roof has ornate wooden trusses with steel tension rods supported on elaborate iron brackets. Ornate iron railings survive in front of the upper balconies. This important central space is surrounded by various functional rooms including toilets and kitchens to the south, a lecture room and infants room to the north.
This very rare and unusual Sunday School building was designed to accommodate the maximum number of children, and to allow for them to be taught either in small groups or as a single unit.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489543
- 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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