Church buildings, Flats, Homes & a Pineapple: Extra from my stroll in Highgate on Sunday nineteenth November. You’ll be able to learn the earlier half at Almshouses, Museum, Hospital & Retailers – Highgate 1989
This massive Anglican church on Archway Street is straight away to the south of the effective parade of retailers which ended the earlier put up. It all the time seems to be to me extra like a Catholic Church than an Anglican one, in all probability due to the sculptural ornament on and above its doorway, and my impression appears to be appropriate.
The church is a product of three main members of the Artwork Employees Guild, a physique based in 1994 selling the concepts of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts motion. It was begun in 1888 by John Dando Sedding (1838 – 1891), one of many Guild’s founders in 1886-7 its second grasp and the west entrance proven right here was accomplished in 1916 by his chief assistant Henry Wilson (1864–1934) with the Calvary added then by J Harold Gibbons (1878 – 1957.)
The church describes itself as a “pleasant Anglo Catholic parish church” and has just lately “resulting from theological convictions concerning the catholicity and sacramental integrity” of its mission requested to be faraway from the care of Dame Sarah Mullally the Bishop of London and has been transferred to the See of Fulham which has a male Bishop.
I walked up Archway, and photographed the Winchester Tavern (not on line) at 206 earlier than turning west down Cholmeley Park the place I believe I took this image of a Thirties suburban home with a round window beside the door and a rounded bay with Crittal home windows. I believe I felt it was a relatively typical constructing relatively than something distinctive, one thing I attempted to incorporate in my venture.
However these flats are clearly uncommon, and the facade right here was the doorway to the constructing arrange right here by the Santa Claus Society in 1890 or 1900 (sources differ) to offer 20 long-term convalescent beds for kids with hip and spinal illnesses.
The hospital turned a part of the NHS and was closed in 1954. It was transformed by the London County Council in 1954 to offer hostel lodging for 31 males affected by tuberculosis who had “reached their most diploma of enchancment beneath hospital therapy however who can’t be discharged as a result of they’re homeless.”
Waterlow Park on a hillside beneath Highgate Village is one in all London’s most interesting parks and when within the space I’ve usually had a brief relaxation in it, discovering an acceptable spot to eat my sandwiches.
This effective instance of a pineapple is beside some steps within the park and I believe is a kind of produced by Eleanor Coade, who ran Coade’s Synthetic Stone Manufactory, Coade and Sealy, and Coade in Lambeth, London, from 1769 till her dying in 1821.This difficult-wearing architectural materials is just about weatherproof. Coade Stone was produced by a secret course of involving double firing of stoneware which died along with her closing enterprise associate in 1833. It has been revived lately by Coade, an organization “born due an absence of expert craftsman able to restoring the unique Coade stone sculpture.”
Pineapples had been a standard architectural ornament in Georgian and Victorian occasions, symbolising wealth and effective style.
I got here out of Waterlow Park and crossed Highgate Hill to Highgate Presbyterian Church on the nook between Cromwell Avenue and Hornsey Lane. Designed by Potts, Sulman & Hennings, a reasonably short-lived partnership from 1885 to 1891 between Arthur William Hennings, Edward Potts and Sir John Sulman (who left for Australia in 1885) in a Gothic Revival fashion was accomplished in 1887. In 1967 it turned Highgate United Reformed Church and was transformed into flats as Cloisters Court docket in 1982.
This effective terrace is at 57-71 Hornsey lane and I believe dates from round 1900, in all probability the late Eighteen Nineties, and is joined at its west finish to a barely grander central block at 39 at excessive left of the image, (the place are 41-55?) with Linden Mansions persevering with to the west to the previous church on the nook of Hornsey Lane.
My stroll continued down Hornsey Lane – extra in a later put up.
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