Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3183SW PENTON STREET
635-1/64/678 (North side)
29/09/72 Church of St Silas with All Saints
(Formerly Listed as:
PENTON STREET
Church of St Silas)

II

Anglican church. 1860 by Samuel Sanders Teulon, completed 1863
by E.P.Loftus Brock; chancel added 1884. Kentish ragstone with
dressings of stone, and white, yellow and red brick, roof of
Welsh slate. Chancel, nave, south aisle, south-west tower.
East end has three trefoiled lancets, the central one taller,
and angle buttresses; pointed-arched entrance at east end of
south aisle with engaged columns having foliage capitals,
multi-moulded archivolt, original double doors, head of gauged
white and yellow brick, and bracketed and gabled canopy. South
aisle of six bays; five bays have one group of three lancets
each under a pointed relieving arch, the tympanum filled with
herringbone work in white and yellow brick, the second window
from the east interrupted by a late C20 door. Offset above
relieving arches; parapet interrupted by square, buttresslike
piers with low pyramidal pinnacles, now apparently truncated.
The clerestory windows are pointed-arched with two lancets
below a rose, the rose exhibiting a different form of plate
tracery in each window; the windows have heads of yellow
brick, probably rebuilt and extending as springing bands, and
rise above the parapet into their own gables. Two identical
pointed-arched entrances, one occupying the westernmost bay of
the south aisle and one beyond that: pointed arched entrance
with engaged columns having foliage capitals and multi-moulded
archivolt under hoodmould, head of gauged white and yellow
brick, and a gable above each entrance, decorative in the case
of the eastern entrance; pointed-arched doorcase with billet
moulding to both entrances, original panelled door to left.
The west end has three two-light lancets below blank
quatrefoils, heads of gauged yellow brick which extend as sill
and springing bands; two small outer lancets with bands of
gauged yellow brick and a dripmould between them. Rose window
in gable set in a spherical triangle of gauged yellow brick,
the tracery of inventive geometrical form; lancet to apex of
gable. South-west tower with two lancets to south, a band of
white brick above with yellow brick diapering, stepped brick
corbels to eaves, with red brick patterns between them, and
pyramidal roof.
INTERIOR: . Chancel of brick, painted, the rest of the
interior plastered. Nave arcade of six bays; west gallery;
some space at west end of nave enclosed in C20; wooden
ceiling. Simple wooden pulpit in a Gothic style.
(The Architectural Outsiders: Matthew Saunders: 'Samuel Teulon
1812-1873': London: 1985-).

Listing NGR: TQ3104883302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503325

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)