Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3084NE CALEDONIAN ROAD 635-1/44/128 (West side) Caledonian Road Methodist Church and attached railings

GV II

Formerly known as: Primitive Methodist Chapel CALEDONIAN ROAD. Non-conformist Methodist chapel, formerly Primitive Methodist. 1870; restored 1953; internal alterations c.1972. By T & W Stone; William Goodman, builder. Buff brick with stone and red brick decoration especially for alternate voussoirs; projecting eaves to roof, of which materials obscured. Handsome Italianate style chapel of rectangular plan. Two storeys; 4-window range to main elevation, and 5-window range to right-hand return wall in Market Road. Symmetrical facade to Caledonian Road: projecting ground-floor to full-width of front elevation for entrance porch and lobbies to gallery stairs. Central doorway flanked by triple round-arched windows carried on cast-iron columns. Memorial plaques beneath windows. Stone string-course and narrow cornice, parapet with Greek cross motif picked out in red brick. Broken pediment above doorway containing name plaque. Upper storey with round-arched windows with impost strings. Frieze above repeats the Greek cross decoration. Sharply projecting cornice. Window frames of cast-iron and comprise 3 circular lights, arranged vertically (top light opens on alternate windows). Market Road elevation with basement area: ground-floor sashes with segmental heads; upper floor sashes as on main facade. INTERIOR: : marred by addition of walls beneath gallery. Wooden gallery supported on slender cast-iron columns; ornamental cast-iron panels beneath handrail. Original seats. Coved and coffered ceiling, ribs resting on ornamental corbels. C19 organ but installed 1930s. One of the best-designed and best-executed chapels in Islington. (Survey of Nonconformist chapels and places of worship: Temple, P: Islington Chapels: London: 1989-: CALEDONIAN ROAD,N7).

Listing NGR: TQ3057684760

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)