Aviation House (Former Church of the Holy Trinity)
AVIATION HOUSE, 125, KINGSWAY, LONDON, WC2B 6NH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379262
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Aviation House (Former Church of the Holy Trinity)
- Statutory Address:
- AVIATION HOUSE, 125, KINGSWAY, LONDON, WC2B 6NH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379262
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Aviation House (Former Church of the Holy Trinity)
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVIATION HOUSE, 125, KINGSWAY, LONDON, WC2B 6NH
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:
- AVIATION HOUSE, 125, KINGSWAY, LONDON, WC2B 6NH
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 30496 81455
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/08/2017
TQ3081SW
798-1/105/996
CAMDEN
KINGSWAY (West side)
No 125 Aviation House (Former Church of the Holy Trinity)
(Formerly listed as Nos.125 AND 127 Church of the Holy Trinity)
14/05/74
GV
II
Church, redundant in 1994. c1909-11. By J Belcher and JJ Joass. Portland stone. Rectangular plan with eastern apse and western concave screen wall. Edwardian Baroque style. Concave facade with central semicircular projecting portico of Corinthian columns supporting an entablature, which continues across the flanking walls, and shallow dome surmounted by an enriched urn. Similar urns surmounted terminating pillars of flanking walls. Round-arched niches with entrances below and tablets supported by sculptured angels above, flank the portico. The projected central tower was never built; now with shaped gable appearing behind portico and having an enriched tablet surmounted by a bellcote with cast-iron balcony.
INTERIOR: there was also no money to stone face the interior; now white-washed brick with exposed brick above. Tunnel vault roof in concrete with penetrations from the middle north and south windows. All windows tall, round-headed.
HISTORICAL NOTE: facade design modelled loosely on S. Maria della Pace in Rome by Pietro da Cortona.
Listing NGR: TQ3049681455
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478630
- 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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