Lady Margaret Church
LADY MARGARET CHURCH, CHATHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378475
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Margaret Church
- Statutory Address:
- LADY MARGARET CHURCH, CHATHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378475
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Margaret Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY MARGARET CHURCH, CHATHAM STREET
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:
- LADY MARGARET CHURCH, CHATHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32646 78769
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3278 CHATHAM STREET 636-1/8/202 (North side) 11/08/94 Lady Margaret Church (Formerly Listed as: CHATHAM ROAD (North side) Lady Margaret Church)
II
Anglican church, now disused. 1888-9. By Ewan Christian. Red brick with stone dressings. STYLE: the overall style is Early English, the proportions adjusted and the surfaces made sheer for dramatic and expressive effect. PLAN: the main vessel of the building has a steeply pitched slate roof which maintains the same level from nave to chancel and wraps around the apsidal east end. A candle snuffer bell cote marks the division between the nave and transepts which scarcely project beyond the face of the narrow north and south aisles and which are linked, at the west end, by an equally narrow narthex. The main door of the church, which has a segmental pointed arch surmounted by a drip moulding, is at the south end of the narthex. EXTERIOR: west end has triple lancet window and has cross-shaped saddlestone and kneelers . Five bay nave with lancets to clerestorey and no windows to nave but pattern of pilasters . Gabled transepts with kneelers, cross-shaped saddlestones and double lancet linked by hood moulding. Apsidal chancel has lancets linked by hoodmoulding. Dogtooth cornice to nave and chancel. Slate bellcote between nave and transepts with spire and wooden bellchamber. INTERIOR: 5-bay arcade of brick, the piers without imposts. These support an impressive barrel-shaped timber ceiling. Light enters the building through clerestory and transept windows, there being no windows on the ground-floor level. The apse has been lined, probably in the early C20, with alternating panels of light and dark marble, and the windows in this part of the church are filled with stained glass by Clayton and Bell.
Listing NGR: TQ3264678769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470776
- 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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