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CHRIST CHURCH

CHRIST CHURCH, HIGHBURY GROVE, N5 1SA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187273
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, HIGHBURY GROVE, N5 1SA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187273
Date first listed:: 28-Sep-1972
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH, HIGHBURY GROVE, N5 1SA

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, HIGHBURY GROVE, N5 1SA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Islington (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31914 85450

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31/03/2016

TQ3185SE 635-1/38/459

ISLINGTON HIGHBURY GROVE (West side) Christ Church

(Formerly listed as Christchurch) 29/09/72 GV II Anglican church. 1847-8 by Thomas Allom; the nave extended by two bays in 1872. Dressed Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings; roof of slate. Chancel, nave and north and south transepts, all with aisles and clerestories, and all grouped around an octagonal crossing; tower and spire in the angle of nave and north transept. Apsidal chancel of five sides with two-light windows and single-bay aisles to either side; north and south transepts each with gabled porch with paired pointed arches and quatrefoil over; three-light window above with bar tracery; chamfered piers between transept and aisles, ending in blank arcaded pinnacles, parapet to gable; nave of five bays with four two-light windows to the aisles and porch in the western bay; three single trefoiled lights with colonnettes to each bay of the clerestory, the middle light blank. The west end has a central entrance (now blocked) with three-light window above, and chamfered piers ending in pinnacles, as for the transepts.Tower of three stages with setback buttresses to first two stages; two-light opening to bell stage with ball flower ornament in hollow-moulded chamfers; stepped corbel table to broach spire with much-decayed evangelists at the corners and three tiers of lucarnes. INTERIOR: apsidal sanctuary with blank arcading resting on triple colonnettes, the spandrels filled with foliage carving and emblems of the evangelists; choir of one bay opening into a central octagon, the arcade of which is formed of octagonal columns carrying multi-moulded pointed arches; the chancel arcades and the single bays of the transepts are detailed in the same way, and the nave is now of two bays, of the same type, but with a late C20 gallery in the second bay; similar arches are corbelled out from half-way up the springing of the principal arcade between the chancel, nave and transepts, and the central octagon. Timber roof with arched braces rising from wall shafts, the corbels carved with angels and foliage; this arrangement runs throughout the church with an arrangement of decorative trusses at the centre of the octagon, square in plan and with pendant bosses; the aisles to the transepts and nave also feature wall shafts. Blank four-bay arcade with crocketed gables and Tudor-arched doorway in the north aisle. The two western bays of the nave have been divided off and split into two floors. Octagonal stone pulpit,now painted like all the other stonework, with a trefoiled Gothic arcade. (Eric Willatts: Streets with a story. The book of Islington: London: 1986). Listing NGR: TQ3191485450

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Legacy System number:: 368969
Legacy System:: LBS

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Willatts, E, Streets with a story The book of Islington London, (1986)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.