Soley Mews Chapel Young Womens Christian Association

ISLINGTON

TQ3182NW LLOYD BAKER STREET 635-1/68/987 Studio (Former Chapel)

GV II

Former Chapel of the House of Retreat, Lloyd Baker Street and Lloyd Square. 1891-2, Ernest Newton. Stock brick with traceried windows in stone, slate roofs. Late Decorated Gothic. Blank west (sanctuary) end. North and south walls with three high three-light traceried clerestory windows on either side with transoms in heads. Low, lean-to north aisle with three-light, square-headed windows with cusped heads. Narrow south passage-aisle. East end with high three-light traceried window in apex of gable. Internally divided into three and a half bays with projecting, windowless west end for sanctuary. Plastered walls. Flat-faced arcade with attached moulded stone ribs on face rising through a strong, similarly ribbed stone stringcourse below clerestory windows up to a deep, projecting, richly moulded wallplate in two stages. Elliptical boarded timber roof divided into panels, enriched over former sanctuary. Aisle roofs boarded and panelled. East gallery. Most original internal fittings no longer extant, but portions of screens dividing aisles from nave and front east end gallery survive, in an original Arts and Crafts Gothic style, with moulded and chamfered dividing mullions and stylized foliage patterns. Beam and painted cross on the sanctuary (west) wall. Some stained glass in aisle windows.

Listing NGR: TQ3113382832