Church Of St Barnabas

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TQ2884NE KENTISH TOWN ROAD 798-1/54/969 (East side) Church of St Barnabas

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Church, now Greek Orthodox church. 1884-5 by Ewan Christian; redecorated 1900; redecorated late C20. Stock brick with stone dressings and thin red brick bands. Slated pitched roofs with red tile cresting and stepped brick eaves cornice to nave and aisles of almost the same height. STYLE: C13 Gothic style with late C20 Byzantine style painting to roofs and nave arcades. PLAN: 4 bay aisled nave and apsidal chancel. EXTERIOR: gabled west front with central pointed arch entrance below a 3-light plate tracery rose window; coped gable with horizontal stone blocks. On left hand angle, a polygonal full height bell tower with arrow slit windows and stone belfry with shaped openings and small spire. Both aisles recessed. South aisle with 2-light plate tracery window above a rectangular 3-light porch set in the angle; return with entrance in porch and two 3-light and one 2-light plate tracery windows. North aisle similar but with apse in angle and apsidal east end. Chancel lit by 5 large lancets. INTERIOR: with barrel-vaulted roof to nave and vaulted chancel, all now painted in Byzantine style, chancel with the Virgin Hodegetria and nave with panelled scenes from the life of Christ and a frieze of apostles. Nave arcades of wide pointed arches on plain columns with octagonal capitals; spandrels painted with angels and Biblical figures. Original western gallery with concave balustrade. HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was let to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1957.

Listing NGR: TQ2898284599