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Latitude: 51.5038 / 51°30'13"N
Longitude: -0.1926 / 0°11'33"W
OS Eastings: 525544
OS Northings: 179871
OS Grid: TQ255798
Mapcode National: GBR 0H.Y2
Mapcode Global: VHGQY.MG2H
Plus Code: 9C3XGR34+GX
Entry Name: Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Listing Date: 25 September 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1376619
English Heritage Legacy ID: 470625
ID on this website: 101376619
Location: Kensington, Kensington and Chelsea, London, W8
County: London
District: Kensington and Chelsea
Electoral Ward/Division: Campden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kensington and Chelsea
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Abbots with Christ Church and St Philip Kensington
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building Architectural structure
TQ 2579 NE KENSINGTON CHURCH STREET, W8
249/31/10049 R C Church of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1954-59. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Brown brick; cream stone dressings. Steeply pitched tiled roofs to aisles and confessionals. Roof not visible to main body of church. Rectangular plan. Simplified Gothic manner. Tall narrow nave with pronounced diagonal roofs to north and south, that to north with three large half-dormers. Full height three-light west window flanked by tall buttresses. Bellcote to gable above. Paired three-light square headed clerestory windows with cusped heads. Entrance to south-west.
Interior with broad transverse pointed arches, capital-less and treated as internal buttresses with passage aisles (with square headed openings and pointed blind tympana. The pitch of the roof is expressed above the passage aisles and above the transverse arches is the clerestory and flat ceiling with timber beams picked out in white on a red background. Western gallery on short circular columns. Lower part of wall is lined in red sandstone, the upper part is plastered. Short sanctuary with altar now in forward position. Tall reredos in three panels painted in red and blue with gilded tracery and inset figures. Octagonal font now to north of altar. Pulpit of timber with red sandstone base attached to north side of chancel arch. Timber pendant light fittings with brass bell-shaped bulb holders.
Spatially unusual on account of the clerestorey being placed above the transverse arches, this church is a fine example of Sir Giles Scott's late work.
Listing NGR: TQ2554479871
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