Description

In the entry for:-
West Ferry Road, E14
TQ 3778 (East Side)
30/896
27.9.73 St Paul's Presbyterian
Church
II

The description shall be amended to read:-

Former Presbyterian church. 1859, by T E Knightly. Brown Flemish band
brick with stone and polychromatic brick dressings; gabled slate roof.
One-cell plan with square sanctuary to east end. North Italian Romanesque
style. Gabled west front, of 3 stages, has semi-circular polychromatic
brick arches over central doorway with cushion capitals to engaged stone
shafts, panelled double doors and carved stone tympanum flanked by 2
boarded cast-iron windows; first-storey has continuous arcade of 9 semi-
circular polychromatic brick arches set on stone colonettes with cushion
capitals and moulded bases; panelled stone-coped parapet flanks gabled
upper stage with similar arcade of 5 arches.

Four-bay north and south elevations have semi-circular polychromatic brick
arches, over 4-light cast-iron windows; heavy stepped brick eaves courses;
clerestorey, clad in fish-scale slates, has 3-light windows each with stone
semi-circular arcade set on colonettes with cushion capitals and moulded
bases; one window to south has been removed for inserted mid C20 entry.
Plain extension of 1905 added at right angles to east end. Interior: semi-
circular sanctuary arch set on stone colonettes with inverted volutes to
cushion capitals; stone steps to balcony with panelled front set on cast-
iron columns; 4-bay roof with arch braces built of laminated timber, an
early example of its use. Foundation stone, to right of west door, was
laid by John Scott Prussel - a Scottish shipbuilder who had worked at the
nearby Napier yard on the Great Eastern and other ships; there is a
tradition that St Paul's was built to serve the needs of Scottish
ironworkers brought to work on the Great Eastern.

(Article by R J M Carr in Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol 3 (1981,
pp 264-6)

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1. WEST FERRY ROAD E14
4431
(East Side)
Formerly St Pauls Presbyterian
Church, now part of Herbert
Morris Brown Lenox Ltd.
Industrial Premises
TQ 3778 30/896
II
2.
Later C19. Remarkable for use of colour and arcading. Stock brick with red and
blue brick and white stone dressings. Slate roof. Facade of 3 storeys. 3 round
headed arches to ground floor, above, brick band surmounted by 9 bay arcade.
Deeply recessed centre 3 bay windows; flanking and outer blind bays each side,
of single window. Above, shaped string course over panelled, coped blocking
course. 3rd storey of 5 bays width with similar arcading to that of 2nd storey.
Roundel above under shallow gable. Arcaded clerestory at sides of building.
Heavy brick eaves cornice. 4 large round arched windows with iron tracery along
side of building. 1 window space now filled with doors.

Listing NGR: TQ3726278875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Space at Wikipedia
• The Space official website
• Wikidata Q7765625

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