Description

ISLINGTON

TQ308300NW RANDELLS ROAD
635-1/56/691 (North side)
Nos.18-26
Paget Memorial Mission Hall and
ancillary buildings

II

Mission Hall and ancillary accommodation. Dated 1911 in the
pediment over the main entrance, and possibly incorporating
part of earlier terraced houses. By Arthur Beresford Pite.
Yellow brick with bands of red brick set in Flemish bond,
stucco, roof of slate. Three storeys, seven-window range. In
Randells Road the buildings have a flat facade continuing the
treatment of the rest of the terrace apart from the
window-openings of the chapel; the Superintendent's rooms and
the missionaries' flats are to the left of, and also above the
chapel. Flat-arched entrance to the chapel with moulded stucco
architrave and pediment, segmental-arched house entrance to
the left; mosaic fascia above with inscription 'PAGET MEMORIAL
MISSION HALL'. The chapel front has a stucco panel pierced by
two pointed- and shoulder-arched windows, with a lunette
window above; all other windows segmental-arched; parapet.
INTERIOR: . The bulk of the decoration in the Hall appears to
be of 19ll, but it incorporates features of earlier date, some
or all of which come from Douglas Support, near Coatbridge,
Lanarkshire. This house belonged to the Reverend Sholto
Douglas, later Lord Blythswood, who built the Paget Memorial
Hall in memory of his wife, Violet Paget, who had held a Bible
class on this spot in 1887-9. The hall is panelled throughout
up to window-height, and the panelling is for the most part
arcaded; the spandrels are decorated with cartouches painted
with the monogram VP, and the muntins with carved drops; the
cartouches were probably designed by Martin Travers, a pupil
of Pite; the cornices throughout are decorated with gilt
stencilled violets.
The panelling at the east end is surmounted by a broad
pediment carrying the arms of Lord Blythswood; inscriptions
over the arch of the east window, and on raised plaster panels
above that. Broad balustraded pulpit with square newel posts
and balusters, the rail decorated with hearts and rosettes;
incorporated in the pulpit are two torcheres incorporating
Venetian walnut figures representing Vice and Virtue, probably
of late C17 or C18 date.
In the south wall are two ornate chimney-pieces. That to the
east has an overmantel decorated with hearts, interlaced
ornament and scrolling foliage carved in wood, the whole being
framed by columns of Baroque design, bulbous in their lower
parts and carved with grotesque and foliage ornament, and of
barley-sugar form in the upper parts, supporting a shallow
segmental pediment whose tympanum is filled with oak branches
and a lion rampant carved in low relief; the pediment
surmounted by three statuary figures, the central one of
Christ, by Thorwaldsen. The chimneypiece to the west is
pedimented and incorporates a portrait of Violet Paget in the
overmantel. A fireplace in the north wall is surmounted by a
mantelshelf and overmantel, the overmantel flanked by two
strips of Jacobean or neo-Jacobean carving, incorporating term
figures and foliage.
Organ gallery at the west end carried on columns of Baroque
design, bulbous in the lower part and of barley-sugar form
above; balustrade with square newel posts and balusters and
rail decorated with hearts and rosettes. The organ was
formerly at Douglas Support.
Entrance at the north-west corner under pedimented canopy
carried on slim columns whose upper parts are decorated with
spiral fluting.
The Leader's Room, at the west end of the ancillary
accommodation, has a fireplace flanked by elaborate columns
decorated with fluting and carrying a canopy.
(Architect's drawings by A.B.Pite.; Information from Ruth
Guilding).

Listing NGR: TQ3034783940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26490276

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