Church Of St Benet And All Saints

CAMDEN

TQ2985NW LUPTON STREET 798-1/32/1084 Church of St Benet and All Saints

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Church. Chancel with vestries and south chapel of 1908; nave of 1928; architect Cecil G Hare. Multi-coloured stock brick with stone dressings. Slated roof with south-eastern bellcote. Aisleless 6-bay nave flanked by western single storey porticoes, small north-east chapel, chancel with southern chapel and vestries. EXTERIOR: tall, narrow west end with projecting central bay having 4-light tracery window flanked by flat buttresses and surmounted by a brick pediment. Double stone sill bands extend around parapets of flanking rectangular porticoes having pointed arch entrances approached by steps. North and south facades with alternate bays projecting and having 3-light buttress flanked windows and pediments similar to west end. Chancel with 2 large traceried lancets to east wall; 2 further lancets to south wall and 1 to the north wall. INTERIOR: has concrete barrel vault to nave and painted coffered ceiling to chancel with northern organ loft. Walls of painted brick with stone dressings. Nave bays alternately wide and narrow; wide bays have tall 3-light windows under gables cutting into the barrel vault. At ground floor level, continuous round-arched arcaded shallow niches containing cast metal Stations of the Cross in the wide bays and small 2-light windows with early C20 stained glass in the narrow bays. One wide southern bay converted to a pulpit. Fittings include a rood beam and brown-veined marble pedestal font with wrought-iron cover.

Listing NGR: TQ2916785568