List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST MARK WITH ST ANNE
List entry Number: 1209628
Location
CHURCH OF ST MARK WITH ST ANNE, TOLLINGTON PARK
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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| Greater London Authority | Islington | London Borough | |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 29-Sep-1972
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 369387
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Details
ISLINGTON
TQ3086NE TOLLINGTON PARK
635-1/15/859 (South East side)
29/09/72 Church of St Mark with St Anne
GV II
Anglican church. 1853-54 by Alexander Dick Gough. Kentish
ragstone in random rubble with Bath stone dressings; roof of
Welsh slate. Single-bay sanctuary, chancel flanked by
vestries, wide transepts of the same height as chancel and
nave, north and south aisles, south-west tower and spire.
Three-light east window with colonnettes, but not easily
visible; spherical triangle to south wall of sanctuary and to
clerestory of chancel above vestries, which have lancet
windows; south transept has pointed-arched entrance under a
shallow gable with three lancets above with colonnettes;
single lancet in gable; south aisle has four lancets with
colonnettes and hoodmoulds between buttresses; clerestory
windows are circular cinquefoils; the north aisle is similar
but of six bays; north transept not visible. Gabled west end
with diagonal buttresses, pointed-arched entrance with engaged
columns with foliage capitals and dogtooth ornament to the
archivolt; west window of three lancets with colonnettes and
hoodmould, the central one taller; tower in penultimate bay of
south side with diagonal buttresses to first three stages,
third bay a clock stage; bell stage with paired lancets framed
by colonettes with nailhead ornament to the archivolt; much
decayed Evangelists as gargoyles at the four corners of the
broach spire, with lucarnes to the cardinal faces. Gabled
spirelet to crossing.
INTERIOR: has shallow sanctuary framed by multi-shafted
pointed arch; chancel and transepts form three spaces marked
off from each other only by the corbelled wall shafts; aisles
of four bays to the south and six to the north, but two bays
on the north at the west end now closed off; the arcade
consists of alternate circular and octagonal columns, the
circular columns with shaft rings and roll mouldings to the
capitals; deep gallery originally open underneath, now closed
off; queen-post roof with arched braces and decorative struts,
reaching considerable complexity at the crossing. Mid-C19
altar table with trefoiled painted panels; encaustic tiling to
floor of chancel; arcaded pulpit carried on short columns.
Listing NGR: TQ3069986819
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National Grid Reference: TQ 30699 86819
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