Church of All Hallows
CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, SHIRLOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378658
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Hallows
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, SHIRLOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1378658
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Hallows
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, SHIRLOCK 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:
- CHURCH OF ALL HALLOWS, SHIRLOCK 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 27866 85684
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2785NE SHIRLOCK ROAD
798-1/29/1435 (East side)
10/06/54 Church of All Hallows
II*
Church. 1889-1901 by James Brooks; chancel and chapel of the
Blessed Sacrament c1913 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Ancaster
stone with rusticated coursed rubble and freestone dressings.
Slated roofs. French Gothic style.
PLAN: 5-bay nave with aisles same height as nave; 3-bay
chancel with chapels opening off.
EXTERIOR: west end with round-arched double entrance; tympanum
with central statue of the Good Shepherd and blind arcading.
Above, a large wheel window; gable end with balustrade and
2-light traceried window . Central bay flanked by rectangular
plan turrets with narrow lancets and string courses. Aisle
walls and battered buttresses extend to each side of turrets.
Aisles with heavy battered buttresses from foundations to roof
and lancets windows in arched recesses. Chancel with paired
lancets; polygonal stair turrets with pyramidal caps.
INTERIOR: nave arcades with tall, cylindrical pillars without
capitals but carrying the beginnings of a vault which was
never completed. Vaulted chancel; its north aisle 2-storeys,
the south carried up without a floor. Finely detailed
pavement, marble high alter. Image of the Virgin and the font
also by Scott.
HISTORICAL NOTE: "This is certainly Brooks's best church and a
most impressive example of the ambition of the
later-nineteenth century church builders" Basil Clarke.
(Survey of London: Vol. XXIV, King's Cross Neighbourhood (St
Pancras part IV): London: -1952: 140; Clarke B: Parish
Churches of London: -1966).
Listing NGR: TQ2786685684
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 477992
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Survey of London - Kings Cross neighbourhood The Parish of St Pancras Part 4: Volume 24 , (1951), 140
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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