Description

ISLINGTON

TQ2985SE HILLDROP ROAD 635-1/34/502 (South side) 29/09/72 Nos.1 AND 2 (Formerly Listed as: CAMDEN ROAD Baptist Church)

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Former Baptist Church and church hall, now hostel. c.1853-4 by C.G.Searle. Dressed Kentish ragstone with stone dressings, roof of artificial slate. Nave and chancel under a single roof with linked two-storey hall at east end, and two octagonal towers at the west end. North and south elevations of five-and-a-half bays with pointed-arched windows of three lights with two transoms, trefoil-headed lights and rectilinear tracery, the windows flanked by gabled buttresses with offsets; the westernmost bay has a four-centred-arched entrance with a pointed-arched window of two lights above. The west end has a central entrance under a four-centred arch with engaged columns and foliage capitals, and foliage mouldings to the archivolt; ogee hoodmould with quatrefoil to tympanum; four-centred-arched window above with six lights and one transom, trefoil-headed lights and rectilinear tracery; two flanking octagonal towers with four-centred arch to ground floor entrance, trefoiled lancets above, and original roofs missing; storey band at first floor and gable level; central gable with openwork parapet and corbelled pinnacle to apex. The attached wing at the east end has a single-storey gabled porch with four-centred arch to entrance, two-window range linking block above with parapet, and two-storey gabled wing, formerly the church hall: the elevation to Hilldrop Road has flat-arched three-light windows to two storeys with top lights and walls of dressed Kentish ragstone, the other sides of yellow brick. The interior of the church was almost completely altered for the purposes of a hostel in 1990, but retains an original staircase with iron rail and balusters in the linking wing, and two quasi-king-post roof trusses with cusped beams visible at the west end of the church.

Listing NGR: TQ2997185297

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