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La Sainte Union Des Sacres Coeurs

A Grade II Listed Building in Highgate, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.56 / 51°33'35"N

Longitude: -0.1494 / 0°8'57"W

OS Eastings: 528382

OS Northings: 186191

OS Grid: TQ283861

Mapcode National: GBR DV.H01

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.C1DY

Plus Code: 9C3XHV52+X6

Entry Name: La Sainte Union Des Sacres Coeurs

Listing Date: 14 May 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379015

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478379

ID on this website: 101379015

Location: Dartmouth Park, Camden, London, NW5

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Highgate

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Anne Brookfield

Church of England Diocese: London

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CAMDEN

TQ2886SW HIGHGATE ROAD
798-1/20/859 (East side)
14/05/74 La Sainte Union Des Sacres Coeurs

GV II

Roman Catholic convent. c1864 with later additions. Yellow
stock brick with Bath stone dressings. Symmetrical, Classical
facade.
EXTERIOR: 3 storey centre of 11 windows and slightly
projecting entrance bay; 4 storey wings of 5 windows (returned
at rear to form courtyard). Slated mansard roofs to wings with
dormers of round-arched windows having elaborate scrolled
surrounds and pediments with cartouches. Central block with
round-arched ground floor windows separated by Tuscan
pilasters supporting entablature at 1st floor level; 1st floor
architraved sashes separated by Tuscan pilasters supporting
entablature at 2nd floor level; 3rd floor architraved sashes
separated by Ionic pilasters supporting entablature with
balustrade.
Entrance bay with bracketed hood formed by entablature
breaking forward; doorway with fanlight and panelled door
flanked by panels of religious subjects. 1st floor wide
tripartite sash, 2nd floor architraved Diocletian window
surmounted by broken pediment with aedicule containing statue
of Christ.
Wings with round-arched ground floor sashes separated by
Tuscan pilasters supporting entablature at 1st floor level,
architraved sashes to 1st and 2nd floors, 3rd floor
architraved round-arched sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town:
London: 34 & 35).

Listing NGR: TQ2838286191

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