Emmanuel Church
EMMANUEL CHURCH, LYNCROFT GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379387
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel Church
- Statutory Address:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, LYNCROFT GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379387
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, LYNCROFT GARDENS
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:
- EMMANUEL CHURCH, LYNCROFT GARDENS
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 25413 85301
Details
CAMDEN
TQ2585SW LYNCROFT GARDENS
798-1/35/1837 (South East side)
Emmanuel Church
II
Anglican church. 1897-8, chancel and first 4 bays; 1903 west
end completed. Only ground and first floor of tower built. R
Whitfield and JA Thomas, architects. Red brick with stone
dressing. Tiled roof.
PLAN: Basilican plan with north and south lean-to aisles of 5
bays, apsidal east end. 'Salisbury' chapel at south-east
corner. Entrance through north porch fronting Lyncroft Gardens
(originally base of tower). Clerestory chancel lower than
nave.
EXTERIOR: 5 bays divided by brick buttresses. Paired Early
English lights in each bay in clerestory, with brick moulding
and brick dentilled cornice above. Aisles have 3-light lancets
with brick moulding and brick dentilled cornice above. Narthex
at west end with small apsidal chapel with separate roof.
3-light window with brick mouldings on western apse with brick
dentilled cornice above. 5-light lancet window at east end;
group of three flanked by single lancets at west end.
INTERIOR: white brick with bands of red brick. Tall 5-bay nave
with aisles. Arcades of pointed arches on clustered columns.
Arcade at west end divides nave from narthex. Barrel-vaulted
open timber roof. Paired lancet windows in clerestory; aisle
windows 3-light lancets, plain glazed. Chancel with reredos
depicting Last Supper designed 1908 by JA Thomas. Carved oak
pulpit 1901 by Thomas. Organ built 1910 by JW Walker and Sons.
Mosaic floor. 3 windows at east end depicting scenes from the
Life of Jesus 1903. Brass eagle lectern 1898. West end has
baptistry in apse: Gothic Revival stone font resting on marble
colonnettes (1898). Oak cover 1902. Stained glass of 1904
depicts subjects connected with the Baptismal service.
Includes window given by the architect of the church JA Thomas
in memory of his partner, R Whitfield d.1901. Salisbury Chapel
furnished in 1952 by painter Frank Salisbury.
Listing NGR: TQ2541385301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478766
- 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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