Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall

The Shoreditch Tabernacle Church Hall is a Baptist Sunday School Hall built between 1890 and 1891, designed by George Baines for the Shoreditch Tabernacle Church. It is constructed from London stock brick with red brick and stone dressings, topped with slate roofs, and stands two stories tall.

The façade facing Godfrey's Place features an off-centre doorway with a plank door, a 2-light overlight, and a flanking window to the left. To the right, there is a large Venetian window with stone mullions and transoms, and a round-headed central window with a brick head topped by a brick parapet. A tall opening is located to the right, while to the left are two pairs of cross casement windows, and above them, three 9-pane windows, all with segmental red brick heads. An additional section to the left includes a single doorway on the ground floor and two 9-pane windows on the upper floor.

The south façade has a tall perimeter wall, with a section to the left rebuilt. Above and behind this wall is a brick hexagon featuring a 9-pane window on each of its three visible fronts. Above and behind the clerestorey of the hexagonal hall are two 9-pane windows on each face.

Inside, the hall has a two-story schoolroom with classrooms off each floor. Originally, these rooms had moveable partitions, but many have since been made permanent. The upper floors are supported by cast-iron columns, with additional columns supporting the roof and clerestorey. The roof features ornate wooden trusses with steel tension rods supported on elaborate iron brackets. Ornate iron railings are present in front of the upper balconies. This significant central space is surrounded by various functional rooms, including toilets and kitchens to the south, and a lecture room and infants' room to the north.

This building is a very rare and unusual example of a Sunday School designed to accommodate the maximum number of children, allowing for teaching in either small groups or as a single unit.