St George'S Theatre

ISLINGTON

TQ3085NW TUFNELL PARK ROAD 635-1/28/863 (South side) 20/09/54 St George's Theatre (Formerly Listed as: TUFNELL PARK ROAD Church of St George)

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Formerly St George's Church, now St George's Theatre. 1866-7, the tower added in 1876; by George Truefitt. Kentish ragstone with dressings of Bath stone and white brick; roof of slate. Chancel with round apse and vestries to either side; the nave circular and narowing to an octagonal drum at clerestory level; two-storey lobbies at west end, flanked by single-storey porches; covered way leads from west end to tower. Additional theatre buildings abut the east end, and there is a small, original, building abutting the south side of the chancel under a conical roof. The chancel and circular walls of the nave have pointed-arched windows of one or two lights with quatrefoil and trefoil tracery; courses of brick at springing level and elsewhere; eaves cornice of stepped brickwork and brick set at an angle. Clerestory windows are triplets with trefoil heads; at the west end there are flat-arched two-light windows with two-light pointed-arched windows with trefoil tracery above; the porches have flat-arched entrances with shouldered arches set back under a segmental-pointed arch, the tympanum carved with an angel in a roundel surrounded by foliage; roofs of fish-scale slates; hipped roof to octagon with gablets and spirelet at the apex. A single-storey range with an originally open carriage arch connects the church to the tower, which is of two surviving stages with occasional courses of ashlared stone to the first stage, square in plan; octagonal stage above with flat-arched openings under pointed arches with decorative hipped gables; spire now lost. The interior space presents itself as an octagonal arcade and clerestorey, with a circular ambulatory; the arcade is composed of a stone base, square in plan, circular columns made up of an iron stanchion clad apparently in terracotta detailed as bricks, with roll mouldings, stilted pointed unmoulded arches of brick, and a stone dripmould with foliage details at the springing; some clerestory windows retain original fish-scale glazing, others are blocked; shallow timber roof with corbelled trusses; chancel arch in the outer wall of the ambulatory: paired columns supporting an arch matching those of the octagonal arcade and flanked by two segmental-pointed arches; apsidal sanctuary; paired segmental-pointed arches at the west end lead to lobbies and porches. (Building News 6 October 1876).

Listing NGR: TQ3001385984