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Latitude: 51.5351 / 51°32'6"N
Longitude: -0.0998 / 0°5'59"W
OS Eastings: 531890
OS Northings: 183509
OS Grid: TQ318835
Mapcode National: GBR P3.RW
Mapcode Global: VHGQT.7P22
Plus Code: 9C3XGWP2+23
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 20 September 1954
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1195748
English Heritage Legacy ID: 369328
ID on this website: 101195748
Location: Islington, London, N1
County: London
District: Islington
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Islington
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St James Prebend Street
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building
ISLINGTON
TQ3183NE ST PETER'S STREET
635-1/59/826 (South West side)
20/09/54 Church of St Peter
II
Anglican church, now flats. 1834-35. By Sir Charles Barry,
with sanctuary, west front, and tower and spire added by
Roumieu and Gough in 1842-4. White Suffolk brick with stone
dressings and roof of slate. Short sanctuary, nave, transepts,
north and south aisles, north-west tower and spire. Gabled
west end with moulded and gabled portal and doors decorated
with blank tracery, the portal flanked by a small three-bay
arcade and buttresses; above, an open stepped arcade of three
lights with stepped lancets behind. To the south, two small
towers, square in plan, ending in pinnacles; the tower proper
has a gabled entrance to the north side, and the spire is
square in plan but chamfered with lucarnes to the cardinal
directions; at the corners of the tower, four piers ending in
pinnacles linked to the spire by flying buttresses. Lancet
windows to the nave between gabled buttresses, and parapet.
Transepts one bay deep with triple stepped lancets to the
principal front with gable, and cornice of matching profile.
The easternmost bay of the chancel is short, and under a lower
gabled roof, with east window of triple stepped lancets. All
internal features removed and new floors inserted during
conversion to flats.
(Historians' file, English Heritage London Division).
Listing NGR: TQ3189083509
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