CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH OF ST JOHN)

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
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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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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)

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TQ2885SE HIGHGATE ROAD 798-1/42/858 (West side) 10/06/54 Church of St John, Kentish Town

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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

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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.