Description

CAMDEN

TQ2985NW LUPTON STREET
798-1/32/1084 Church of St Benet and All Saints

II

Church. Chancel with vestries and south chapel of 1908; nave
of 1928; architect Cecil G Hare. Multi-coloured stock brick
with stone dressings. Slated roof with south-eastern bellcote.
Aisleless 6-bay nave flanked by western single storey
porticoes, small north-east chapel, chancel with southern
chapel and vestries.
EXTERIOR: tall, narrow west end with projecting central bay
having 4-light tracery window flanked by flat buttresses and
surmounted by a brick pediment. Double stone sill bands extend
around parapets of flanking rectangular porticoes having
pointed arch entrances approached by steps. North and south
facades with alternate bays projecting and having 3-light
buttress flanked windows and pediments similar to west end.
Chancel with 2 large traceried lancets to east wall; 2 further
lancets to south wall and 1 to the north wall.
INTERIOR: has concrete barrel vault to nave and painted
coffered ceiling to chancel with northern organ loft. Walls of
painted brick with stone dressings. Nave bays alternately wide
and narrow; wide bays have tall 3-light windows under gables
cutting into the barrel vault. At ground floor level,
continuous round-arched arcaded shallow niches containing cast
metal Stations of the Cross in the wide bays and small 2-light
windows with early C20 stained glass in the narrow bays. One
wide southern bay converted to a pulpit. Fittings include a
rood beam and brown-veined marble pedestal font with
wrought-iron cover.

Listing NGR: TQ2916785568

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Benet and All Saints official website
• Wikidata Q27086750

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)