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 CLEMENT WITH ST BARNABAS AND ST MATTHEW
List entry Number: 1366078
Location
CHURCH OF ST CLEMENT WITH ST BARNABAS AND ST MATTHEW, KING SQUARE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 369056
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
ISLINGTON
TQ323182NW KING SQUARE
635-1/70/541 (East side)
29/12/50 Church of St Clement with St
Barnabas and St Matthew
II
Anglican church, 1822-26 by Thomas Hardwick, the body of the
church rebuilt in 1953 by Gordon Jackson and Partners and
Norman Haines Design Partnership. Stone and yellow brick set
in Flemish bond, roof of Welsh slate. Nave and chancel under a
single roof, west portico with tower and spire over. Shallow
canted full-height central bay to east end; single-storey
vestry extension of 1953 to east end; moulded stone cornice
extending along north and south walls; rainwater head to left
of central bay dated 1822. Five bays to north and south, the
westernmost showing the original arrangement of two tiers of
windows lighting aisles and galleries, the rest now having
single tall round-arched windows; rainwater head in angle of
south wall and west front; parapet.The west front consists of
a giant Ionic tetrastyle portico in stone with flanking wings
in brick; the portico has plain Ionic columns placed before
antae, the outer antae engaged; the interior of the portico
lined with ashlar in banded rustication and cross-vaulted;
stone cornice and blocking course to wings which have
round-arched windows set back within a round arch, those to
the west now blocked. Balustrade over portico; square central
tower in two stages, the upper stage with two re-entrant
angles and round-arched openings with louvres; slender
octagonal spire.
The interior dates from the reconstruction of 1953; vestibule
below west gallery; otherwise a single space with massive
piers creating a notional division into two-bay chancel, nave
and aisles. The piers are flanked by Corinthian columns and
there are two more columns fronting but not supporting the
gallery. Elaborate plasterwork to the ceiling, in a
neo-Classical style. Fine C18 pulpit brought from elsewhere.
Listing NGR: TQ3205782698
Selected Sources
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National Grid Reference: TQ 32057 82698
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