Christ Apostolic Church (Former Church of St John)
CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN), 23, HIGHGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379013
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Apostolic Church (Former Church of St John)
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN), 23, HIGHGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379013
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-2008
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Apostolic Church (Former Church of St John)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN), 23, HIGHGATE 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:
- CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN), 23, HIGHGATE 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 28882 85368
Details
798-1/42/858 HIGHGATE ROAD 10-JUN-54 (West side) 23 CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN) (Formerly listed as: HIGHGATE ROAD CHURCH OF ST JOHN, KENTISH TOWN)
II
CAMDEN
TQ2885SE HIGHGATE ROAD
798-1/42/858 (West side)
10/06/54 Church of St John, Kentish Town
GV II
Church. Built on the site of the Kentish Town Chapel by James
Wyatt, 1783, of which only the nave walls and the heightened
shallow western apse remain. The rest rebuilt and extended
1843-5 by JH Hakewill. Grey brick with carved stone dressings.
Slate pitched roofs.
EXTERIOR: north and south aisles with galleries (removed
1889), vestry and south porch, east end with twin stone spired
towers with louvred Romanesque type belfry openings and
lean-to porches decorated with heavy neo-Norman and
thirteenth-century ornament. East facade buttressed with
window of 3 round-arched lights separated by colonnettes;
narrow round-arched window above and roundel in gable which
has Lombard type frieze. Behind the porches, gable ends of
side aisles with 2-light round-arched windows.
INTERIOR: open nave with open timber tie-beam roof. 3
round-headed windows each side. 2 round-headed windows with
rose above at apsidal west end. 3 neo-Norman arches separate
nave from shallow, flat-ended chancel. Carved oak pulpit, pews
with carved ends on choir platform, and nave pews intact. Late
C19 alabaster font on stone base with elaborate openwork
wooden cover suspended from pulley. Late C18 and early C19
wall monuments on both sides of the nave.
Stained glass: mostly of the 1840s, including 'Baptism of
Christ and Lazarus' by Wailes, 1845. In former south gallery,
stained-glass window by Burne-Jones, 1862, depicting the
'Building of the Temple' in storage at St Benet's, Lupton
Street in 1994.
Monuments: many minor tablets. John Finch, d.1797, festooned
sarcophagus, by Charles Regnant. Sarah Pepys, d.1806, south
aisle, mourning woman by an urn. William Minshull, d.1836,
with portrait profile by Chantrey.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town:
London: 54, 56 & 145-7).
Listing NGR: TQ2888485367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in Old St Pancras and Kentish Town The Parish of St Pancras Part 2: Volume 19 , (1938), 145-157
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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