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Christ Apostolic Church (Former Church of St John)

A Grade II Listed Building in Kentish Town, London

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Latitude: 51.5525 / 51°33'8"N

Longitude: -0.1425 / 0°8'32"W

OS Eastings: 528882

OS Northings: 185369

OS Grid: TQ288853

Mapcode National: GBR DV.YK9

Mapcode Global: VHGQS.H71P

Plus Code: 9C3XHV25+X2

Entry Name: Christ Apostolic Church (Former Church of St John)

Listing Date: 10 June 1954

Last Amended: 5 December 2008

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379013

English Heritage Legacy ID: 478377

ID on this website: 101379013

Location: Kentish Town, Camden, London, NW5

County: London

District: Camden

Electoral Ward/Division: Kentish Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Camden

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Benet Kentish Town

Church of England Diocese: London

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Description



798-1/42/858 HIGHGATE ROAD
10-JUN-54 (West side)
23
CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (FORMER CHURCH
OF ST JOHN)

(Formerly listed as:
HIGHGATE ROAD
CHURCH OF ST JOHN, KENTISH TOWN)

II

CAMDEN

TQ2885SE HIGHGATE ROAD
798-1/42/858 (West side)
10/06/54 Church of St John, Kentish Town

GV II

Church. Built on the site of the Kentish Town Chapel by James
Wyatt, 1783, of which only the nave walls and the heightened
shallow western apse remain. The rest rebuilt and extended
1843-5 by JH Hakewill. Grey brick with carved stone dressings.
Slate pitched roofs.
EXTERIOR: north and south aisles with galleries (removed
1889), vestry and south porch, east end with twin stone spired
towers with louvred Romanesque type belfry openings and
lean-to porches decorated with heavy neo-Norman and
thirteenth-century ornament. East facade buttressed with
window of 3 round-arched lights separated by colonnettes;
narrow round-arched window above and roundel in gable which
has Lombard type frieze. Behind the porches, gable ends of
side aisles with 2-light round-arched windows.
INTERIOR: open nave with open timber tie-beam roof. 3
round-headed windows each side. 2 round-headed windows with
rose above at apsidal west end. 3 neo-Norman arches separate
nave from shallow, flat-ended chancel. Carved oak pulpit, pews
with carved ends on choir platform, and nave pews intact. Late
C19 alabaster font on stone base with elaborate openwork
wooden cover suspended from pulley. Late C18 and early C19
wall monuments on both sides of the nave.
Stained glass: mostly of the 1840s, including 'Baptism of
Christ and Lazarus' by Wailes, 1845. In former south gallery,
stained-glass window by Burne-Jones, 1862, depicting the
'Building of the Temple' in storage at St Benet's, Lupton
Street in 1994.
Monuments: many minor tablets. John Finch, d.1797, festooned
sarcophagus, by Charles Regnant. Sarah Pepys, d.1806, south
aisle, mourning woman by an urn. William Minshull, d.1836,
with portrait profile by Chantrey.
(Survey of London: Vol. XIX, Old St Pancras and Kentish Town:
London: 54, 56 & 145-7).

Listing NGR: TQ2888485367

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