Voluntary Missionary Movement

TL 10 SE LONDON COLNEY SHENLEY LANE (west side) LONDON COLNEY

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GV II

Training centre, built c1927, probably by Sir Ninian Comper as an extension to All Saints Pastoral Centre. Purple brick with red brick and stone dressings. Machine tile roof. T-shaped building with symmetrical E elevation in a Neo-Georgian style. 2-3 storeys. The front is 11 windows with 1-window slightly projecting gable ends. Banded brick quoins to gable ends; single pilaster-quoins set 2 window in from each gable forming a 5-part elevation. Central part has 5 1st floor casement roundels. Ground floor with a shallow blank arcade. Central recessed door with an inset cemented porch having Tuscan columns and moulded entablature. Glazing bar casements each side. Intermediate bays with sashes to ground floor and casements above. Gable ends with sashes in moulded round-arched frames on upper floor. On the central ridge is a square wooden belfry tower with ogee copper hood and weathervane. N end elevations is 1:2:1 windows with banded quoins. On S end is a single storey loggia connecting with All Saints Pastoral Central (qv). (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1748402940