Church Of St Alban The Martyr

CAMDEN

TQ3181NW BROOKE STREET 798-1/102/117 (North side) 24/10/51 Church of St Alban the Martyr (Formerly Listed as: BROOKE STREET Church of St Alban)

GV II*

Church. Designed 1859, built 1861-62, architect William Butterfield. Chapel 1891 by CHM Mileham. Burnt out 1941 and restored 1959-61 by Adrian Gilbert Scott. Red and yellow stock bricks with stone dressings. Tiled roofs. 7 bays in Gothic style. EXTERIOR: very tall, wide, aisled church with short transepts abutting western tower with saddleback roof. Tower with projecting, gabled central window with a small turret over. To either side tall, narrow, Geometric traceried windows. Site restrictions forced a blank east wall. Entrance through south transept which forms a small chapel. In entry approach 'Jesus being Raised from the Dead', sculpture of 1985 by Hans Feibusch. INTERIOR: Scott's simple but dignified scheme replacing Butterfield's elaborate decoration. Tower opens into the nave by a great arch (Butterfield's). Arcade rebuilt with stone to lower levels, rendered above. Two-bay chancel with aisles of one bay and east wall covered by a mural, 'The Trinity in Glory', by Hans Feibusch, 1966. Stations of the Cross by Feibusch. Some painted decoration on ribs of ceiling. Cast-iron parclose screens to aisle chapels. West gallery with organ. Mackonochie chapel by CHM Mileham survived bombing, with stained glass 1885 and 1898 by CE Kempe; two stations of the cross 1912 by Ninian Comper. St Alban's was one of Butterfield's finest mature works, and remains a powerful composition. (Thompson P: William Butterfield: London: -1971).

Listing NGR: TQ3116881781