Church Of St Silas With All Saints

The Church of St Silas with All Saints is an Anglican church in Islington, built in 1860 by Samuel Sanders Teulon, with completion in 1863 by E.P. Loftus Brock, and a chancel added in 1884. The church is constructed of Kentish ragstone with stone dressings, and white, yellow, and red brick, with a roof of Welsh slate. It features a chancel, nave, south aisle, and a south-west tower. The east end has three trefoiled lancet windows, with the central one taller, and angle buttresses. A pointed-arched entrance at the east end of the south aisle has engaged columns with foliage capitals, a multi-moulded archivolt, original double doors, a gauged white and yellow brick head, and a bracketed and gabled canopy. The south aisle has six bays; five bays feature a group of three lancets each, set under a pointed relieving arch with herringbone work in white and yellow brick filling the tympanum. A late 20th-century door interrupts the second window from the east. Above the relieving arches is a parapet punctuated by square, buttress-like piers with low pyramidal pinnacles, which appear to have been truncated. The clerestory windows are pointed arched with two lancets below a rose window, which exhibits a different form of plate tracery in each window. These windows have heads of yellow brick, likely rebuilt and extending as springing bands, rising above the parapet into their own gables. Two identical pointed-arched entrances are present, one in the westernmost bay of the south aisle and one adjacent to it; the arched doorcases feature engaged columns with foliage capitals, a multi-moulded archivolt, a head of gauged white and yellow brick, and a gable above each entrance, the eastern entrance being particularly decorative. Both entrances have billet moulding and original panelled doors to the left. The west end has three two-light lancet windows below blank quatrefoils, with heads of gauged yellow brick extending as sill and springing bands. Two small outer lancets are present, also with gauged yellow brick and a dripmould between them. A rose window in the gable is set within a spherical triangle of gauged yellow brick and has inventive geometrical tracery. A lancet window tops the gable. The south-west tower has two lancets to the south, a band of white brick with yellow brick diapering, stepped brick corbels to the eaves with contrasting red brick patterns, and a pyramidal roof. The chancel is of brick, painted, while the remainder of the interior is plastered. The nave arcade has six bays, and there is a west gallery. A section of the nave's west end was enclosed in the 20th century. The ceiling is wooden. A simple wooden pulpit in a Gothic style is also present.