Soley Mews Chapel Young Womens Christian Association

The Soley Mews Chapel, formerly the House of Retreat, is located on Lloyd Baker Street and Lloyd Square in Islington. Built between 1891 and 1892 by architect Ernest Newton, this building is constructed of stock brick and features stone traceried windows and slate roofs, showcasing a Late Decorated Gothic style. The west end, which serves as the sanctuary, is blank, while the north and south walls each have three high three-light traceried clerestory windows with transoms in their heads. A low, lean-to north aisle contains three-light, square-headed windows with cusped heads, and there is a narrow south passage-aisle. The east end is highlighted by a high three-light traceried window set in the apex of the gable.

Internally, the chapel is divided into three and a half bays, with a projecting, windowless west end designated for the sanctuary. The walls are plastered, and there is a flat-faced arcade with attached moulded stone ribs that rise through a strong, similarly ribbed stone stringcourse beneath the clerestory windows, leading up to a deep, projecting, richly moulded wallplate in two stages. The roof is elliptical and boarded, divided into panels, with additional enrichment over the former sanctuary. The aisle roofs are also boarded and panelled, and there is an east gallery. Although most original internal fittings have been removed, some remnants remain, including portions of screens that separated the aisles from the nave and the front east end gallery, designed in an original Arts and Crafts Gothic style with moulded and chamfered dividing mullions and stylized foliage patterns. A beam and painted cross adorn the sanctuary (west) wall, and some stained glass can still be seen in the aisle windows.