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

• Wikidata Q26504686

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