Church of St Jude and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Islington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1990. Church.
Church of St Jude and St Paul
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Islington
- Constituency
- Islington North MP: Jeremy Corbyn (YP)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1990
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Jude and St Paul, Mildmay Grove, N1 4PL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 332 850
- Coordinates
- 51.54886, -0.08009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Jude and St Paul is an Anglican church dating to 1885, designed by Alexander Dick Gough. It was enlarged in 1871, including rebuilding the chancel by Edwin Clare. The church is constructed of Kentish ragstone rubble with Bath stone dressings, and has roofs of Welsh slate. It comprises a chancel, transepts, a nave, north and south aisles, a tower set into the angle of the nave and south transept, and a west narthex porch.
The narthex porch features an arcaded parapet. The nave has four-and-a-half bays, and the south aisle has two-and-a-half bays under a lean-to roof. South aisle windows have three lights with panel tracery and hoodmoulds featuring carved heads as label stops. Clerestory windows are formed of sexfoiled spherical triangles modified to a flat base, set within recessed flat-arched panels. The four-stage tower incorporates setback buttresses rising through three stages, and two-light openings in the belfry, featuring carved figures with scrolls at the corners. A broach spire with lucarnes to the cardinal directions tops the tower. The north aisle has four bays under its own gabled roof, with three-light windows between buttresses, and an upper range of windows with cusped heads within flat-arched moulded panels. Transepts have six-light windows with panel tracery and a spherical triangle above; a gabled porch is situated on the north transept, flanked by small, 20th-century additions. The three-bay chancel has windows with panel tracery, with the lower part of the first north window blocked by a cross-gabled, single-storey vestry. The five-light east window features Geometrical tracery and a spherical triangle above.
Inside, a former west gallery arcade has been filled in. The nave arcade, also filled in on both sides, originally consisted of three bays on the north with corbelled and shafted responds and stiff-leaf capitals, and two bays on the south, featuring similar responds and capitals, but with the third bay occupied by an elaborate organ case and gallery. Clerestory windows are set under segmental pointed arches. The north transept is partly partitioned off for school use. The nave roof is carried on corbelled wall-shafts, employing queen-post trusses with arched braces above the tie-beam, and with two additional diagonal trusses across the crossing. The chancel arch is multi-moulded, with shafts on corbels. Chancel windows have ogee mouldings, and the east wall features cusped blank arcading with encaustic tiles and painted texts. The chancel roof has an unusual braced collar design with circular braces above the collar-beam. The interior has been painted, carpeted, and the original pews removed, leaving only chancel stalls.
Local climate
Church of St Jude and St Paul sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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