Description

TQ 2477 MARGRAVINE ROAD W6

8/30

- Church of St Alban

- II

Church. 1894-6.Aston Webb and Ingres Ball. Red brick, stone dressings slate
roof. Fine Perpendicular style. Four bay nave, aisles, narthex, transepts,
very shallow choir, (unfinished). Low octagonal turret with spirelet to north
transept. Perpendicular tracery. Interior with brick polyohrmy in red and
yellow, with stone dressings, now painted. Wide arcades and wide aisles.
Octagonal piers with unusual capitals having eight facets offset from those of
shaft, with ogees cusps at intersections. No bases (floor raised?). Clerestory
with paired square-headed windows and continuous timber lintel, divided by
timber columns. Arcade and clerestory form screen across transept ends. Fine
king post roof. Finely moulded arches on east side of transepts, blocked.
Five-light reticulated tracery to windows of transept ends, with main mullions
ascending to meet window head. Later organ loft to west end. A church of
some originality included despite incomplete state.

Listing NGR: TQ2405977922

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27085617

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)