Description

ISLINGTON

TQ3086NE TOLLINGTON PARK
635-1/15/859 (South East side)
29/09/72 Church of St Mark with St Anne

GV II

Anglican church. 1853-54 by Alexander Dick Gough. Kentish
ragstone in random rubble with Bath stone dressings; roof of
Welsh slate. Single-bay sanctuary, chancel flanked by
vestries, wide transepts of the same height as chancel and
nave, north and south aisles, south-west tower and spire.
Three-light east window with colonnettes, but not easily
visible; spherical triangle to south wall of sanctuary and to
clerestory of chancel above vestries, which have lancet
windows; south transept has pointed-arched entrance under a
shallow gable with three lancets above with colonnettes;
single lancet in gable; south aisle has four lancets with
colonnettes and hoodmoulds between buttresses; clerestory
windows are circular cinquefoils; the north aisle is similar
but of six bays; north transept not visible. Gabled west end
with diagonal buttresses, pointed-arched entrance with engaged
columns with foliage capitals and dogtooth ornament to the
archivolt; west window of three lancets with colonnettes and
hoodmould, the central one taller; tower in penultimate bay of
south side with diagonal buttresses to first three stages,
third bay a clock stage; bell stage with paired lancets framed
by colonettes with nailhead ornament to the archivolt; much
decayed Evangelists as gargoyles at the four corners of the
broach spire, with lucarnes to the cardinal faces. Gabled
spirelet to crossing.
INTERIOR: has shallow sanctuary framed by multi-shafted
pointed arch; chancel and transepts form three spaces marked
off from each other only by the corbelled wall shafts; aisles
of four bays to the south and six to the north, but two bays
on the north at the west end now closed off; the arcade
consists of alternate circular and octagonal columns, the
circular columns with shaft rings and roll mouldings to the
capitals; deep gallery originally open underneath, now closed
off; queen-post roof with arched braces and decorative struts,
reaching considerable complexity at the crossing. Mid-C19
altar table with trefoiled painted panels; encaustic tiling to
floor of chancel; arcaded pulpit carried on short columns.

Listing NGR: TQ3069986819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504686

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