Church of St Alban the Martyr, Camden
Description: Church of St Alban the Martyr
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 24 October 1951
English Heritage Building ID: 476759
OS Grid Reference: TQ3116881781
OS Grid Coordinates: 531168, 181781
Latitude/Longitude: 51.5197, -0.1109
Location: 21 Baldwins Gardens, Camden Town, Greater London EC1N 7 EC1N 7RD
Locality: Camden
Local Authority: Camden Borough Council
County: Greater London
Country: England
Postcode: EC1N 7RD
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Listing Text
CAMDEN
TQ3181NW BROOKE STREET
798-1/102/117 (North side)
24/10/51 Church of St Alban the Martyr
(Formerly Listed as:
BROOKE STREET
Church of St Alban)
GV II*
Church. Designed 1859, built 1861-62, architect William
Butterfield. Chapel 1891 by CHM Mileham. Burnt out 1941 and
restored 1959-61 by Adrian Gilbert Scott. Red and yellow stock
bricks with stone dressings. Tiled roofs. 7 bays in Gothic
style.
EXTERIOR: very tall, wide, aisled church with short transepts
abutting western tower with saddleback roof. Tower with
projecting, gabled central window with a small turret over. To
either side tall, narrow, Geometric traceried windows. Site
restrictions forced a blank east wall. Entrance through south
transept which forms a small chapel. In entry approach 'Jesus
being Raised from the Dead', sculpture of 1985 by Hans
Feibusch.
INTERIOR: Scott's simple but dignified scheme replacing
Butterfield's elaborate decoration. Tower opens into the nave
by a great arch (Butterfield's). Arcade rebuilt with stone to
lower levels, rendered above. Two-bay chancel with aisles of
one bay and east wall covered by a mural, 'The Trinity in
Glory', by Hans Feibusch, 1966. Stations of the Cross by
Feibusch. Some painted decoration on ribs of ceiling.
Cast-iron parclose screens to aisle chapels. West gallery with
organ. Mackonochie chapel by CHM Mileham survived bombing,
with stained glass 1885 and 1898 by CE Kempe; two stations of
the cross 1912 by Ninian Comper. St Alban's was one of
Butterfield's finest mature works, and remains a powerful
composition.
(Thompson P: William Butterfield: London: -1971).
Listing NGR: TQ3116881781
Source: English Heritage
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