Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3087SE TOLLINGTON PARK
635-1/9/860 (North East side)
29/09/72 Church of St Mellitus and attached
presbytery

II

Church built as a New Court Congregational Church, now Roman
Catholic. 1871 by C.G.Searle. Yellow brick set in Flemish bond
with stone dressings; roof obscured by parapet. Two tiers of
windows over basement; five-window range to Tollington Park,
seven-window range to returns. The principal elevation is the
ritual west end to Tollington Park: steps up to giant
tetrastyle Corinthian portico with full entablature, dentil
and modillion cornice, and oculus with elaborate foliage
surround in the tympanum of the pediment; the portico frames
three entrances to the church, flat-arched with moulded stone
architraves, consoles carrying segmental pediments and
panelled doors of original design; with a keyed oculus over
each; the outer bays have flat-arched windows with moulded
stone architraves, the lower ones having keystones which link
up with the bracketed sills of the round-arched eared and
shouldered window above; the entablature continues over these
bays and to first bay of return, with balustraded parapet to
the outer bays, the parapet stepped up behind the portico. The
first bay of the return detailed as for the outer bays of the
front; the rest of the return in Evershot Road has giant Doric
pilasters with two tiers of windows with moulded stone
architraves and keystones between, the lower windows
flat-arched, the upper round-arched; brick dentil cornice to
parapet; the north return is detailed more simply. Ancillary
building to east end, now the presbytery, possibly of a date
with the church: three storeys over basement, five-window
range; plain stone architraves to segmental-arched windows to
ground and first floors, round-arched to second floor;
external stack between fourth and fifth bays. Two wrought iron
scrolled lamp pendants between the west entrances to the
church; lamp standards with elaborate columns to walls
flanking steps up to portico.
The interior of the church is a single galleried space with an
aedicule at the east end of giant Corinthian columns in antis,
suppporting entablature with dentil and modillion cornice;
curved gallery carried on cast-iron Corinthian columns with
elaborate ironwork to the balcony; panelled roof coved to the
centre; wrought-iron lighting pendants of late C19 date.

Listing NGR: TQ3086087087

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585515

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