A series of articles looking at how Church buildings have changed their function over the years. The articles are arranged with the most recent at the top.
Another in our series on Church buildings which have changed their function.
This small but distinctive building in Tottenham Lane, Crouch End N8, is easily missed, squeezed between the blocks of apartments towering on either side of it. But this unusual building has stood here, its exterior appearance virtually unchanged, for nearly 110 years. So, what is its history?
Another article in our series about church buildings which have changed their function.
This imposing mid-1850s building is best viewed from Haringey Park N8 or whilst walking on Crouch Hill. Park Chapel has had a chequered 167 year existence. It has changed from an important Congregational church and centre of social activity for the community, to a wrecked church interior with the hall and other spaces used for commercial purposes, particularly children’s TV production and as a recording studio, back once more to a church interior restored for worship.
This is the third article in our 2022 series on Church buildings which have changed their function.
Seeking your dream apartment in North London, modern but with a quirky difference? You may well be attracted to this apartment building by the estate agents’ photographs of the interiors and blurb about a much-favoured residential area, within easy walking distance of Crouch End’s historic Broadway, next to the green and open Stationers Park and a short bus ride to the Underground and a British Rail station. Why then does the building look exactly like a church?
We resume our 2022 series on Church buildings which have changed their function with this second article.
On the corner of the Broadway and Princes Avenue N10 stands an imposing building with a corner tower surmounted by a copper spirelet, white flint walls, large tracery windows and Ruabon brick mouldings round the doors. The signs outside reads, ‘Miller & Carter Steakhouse’ but on the east wall is a tablet stating, ‘To the Glory of God. This Stone was Laid by Henry Robson Esq. 24th May 1902’. What on earth has been going on?
The first article in our new series on Church Buildings which have changed their function.
In 2022 we will be looking at some buildings, specifically churches, which have changed their function or have been knocked down and replaced, usually by residential accommodation of one type or another.
In this first article we explore some of the issues surrounding the redundancy of such buildings, consider their fate and the place of such buildings in the historical landscape in which they are/were situated.