Ivy-Mantled Tower is a hard-back book with 138 pages and 202 illustrations. It tells the compelling story of a succession of buildings from the medieval church with its bell tower (which still stands) to an 1833 church, followed by a the building of a late Victorian church which was demolished in 1969.
St Mary’s Tower
Memorial Board Names – Panel 1
Addison to Dunsford
This page contains details of the men listed on the first panel of the 1914-18 Memorial Board at St Mary’s Church Tower, Hornsey.
Memorial Board Names – Panel 2
Eason to Laidler
This page contains details of the men listed on the second panel of the 1914-18 Memorial Board at St Mary’s Church Tower, Hornsey.
Memorial Board Names – Panel 3
Lawen to Shaw
This page contains details of the men listed on the third panel of the 1914-18 Memorial Board at St Mary’s Church Tower, Hornsey.
Memorial Board Names – Panel 4
Sherlock to Wright
This page contains details of the men listed on the fourth panel of the 1914-18 Memorial Board at St Mary’s Church Tower, Hornsey.
Public Notice – Faithful Servants Tablet
In 2019 a marble tablet or plaque was discovered in a garden in Muswell Hill. Research has shown that it is almost beyond doubt that it belonged to Hornsey Church. …
St Mary’s Tower Memorial Boards
Inside St Mary’s Tower in Hornsey High Street on the north wall of the ground floor room are four panels mounted as one memorial board listing the names of 136 …
The Old Parish Church of Hornsey
This short account of the history of St Mary’s Church describes the complex development and demise of Hornsey’s three parish churches.
The Two Faithful Servants
The story of the Two Faithful Servants plaque is moving towards a very satisfactory conclusion and featured this week in the local press.The story featured in this week’s Ham & …
Two Faithful Servants’ Memorial Returns Home!
A marble memorial to Mary Parsons and Elizabeth Decker, who were servants to a Hornsey family for 57 and 47 years respectively in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, has been …