Church Of St Monica is a Grade II listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1994. Church. 7 related planning applications.
Church Of St Monica
- WRENN ID
- patient-pier-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hackney
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1994
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added: HOXTON SQUARE TQ 3382 (north side) 735-/35/10012 CHURCH OF ST MONICA GV II
Mission church. 1865-6 by Edward Welby Pugin for the Augustinian Fathers, extended 1880. Stock brick with some stone dressings, slate roof supported on timber arcade. Eight-bay nave with aisles and western gallery, has timber arcade with bracing and chamfers, supporting trusses with cross braces; exposed rafters over rose-window clerestorey, leads to two-bay chancel with paired arcade and lancets. The west front a tight composition with Perpendicular west window over central door - a taut composition between two massive buttresses and oversailed by narrow bellcote. East window with stained glass of 1924 by M E Aldrich Rope. Altar and reredos attributed to Edward Welby Pugin. Single-bay Lady chapel 1880 by John Young. Underneath the gallery a door gives access to the priory (q.v). Included as part of a rare surviving composition of church, school and priory by an important architect who here produced a cheap building that nevertheless has considerable distinction.
Listing NGR: TQ3318082796
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