Church of St Barnabas is a Grade II* listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 April 1951. A Modern Church.

Church of St Barnabas

WRENN ID
gentle-groin-bracken
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP: Ms Diane Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 April 1951
Type
Church
Period
Modern
Address
Church of St Barnabas, Shacklewell Row E8
OS grid reference
TQ 338 855
Coordinates
51.55286, -0.07147
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Barnabas is a mission church built between 1910 and 1911 by Professor Sir Charles Reilly, who also decorated it in 1935-1936. It is constructed from stock brick and features concrete vaults supported by expanded steel reinforcement, all covered in asphalt. The church has a wide three-bay nave flanked by narrow passage aisles, with a baptistery located in an arched recess at the liturgical west end. A screen separates the nave from the chancel, which is otherwise continuous and includes narrow transepts. The apse has a three-bay ambulatory.

The south transept contains an organ loft with an open timber balustrade, and behind it is a projecting choir vestry. All the windows are square leaded lights. The screen, which includes elaborate iron gates presented in 1915, was completed as Reilly intended in 1935-1936, with figures added to the design by Tyson Smith in memory of the Denby family. The church features timber altar rails at the raised altar, choir stalls, sanctuary chairs designed by Reilly, and a font. There is also a side altar with a marble surround.

Local climate

Church of St Barnabas sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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