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Post to the north Stoke Newington
Albion Grove
Chapel. Late 19th Gothic, converted to
housing in 1993
Allen Road
Mid 19th
shopping street
Shakespeare
Amhurst Road
St.James, West Hackney
Church. 1825 given by Thyssen bombed
1940 and rebuilt Association with Daniel Defoe.
Architect Smirke of the British Museum.
Waterloo church although copy is a ruin.
Original was not dedicated to any saint, called Saint James for no
particular reason. 1879 churchyard laid
out as a recreation ground. . Churchyard
managed by Hackney District Board.
St.Paul 1960, furthest
parish from Cornhill standard allowed
Abney Congregational
Church, 1838 bombed 19
Amhurst Arms. Stucco.
April Street
Laid out on Tyssen Estate
1881. With
neat two- storey terraces by a Hoxton
builder, John Grover. They have the dates 1881-4, and are reminiscent of progressive
low-rise philanthropic housing of this time.
Arcola Street
This was a
slum area in the early c20.
Austere
brick Hackney Borough flats of 1939 by Joseph. The
low amenity building in the centre, Hindle House,
was modernized by Hunt Thompson
c. 1987.
Arundel Grove
Bradbury Street
Youth Enterprise Centre.
1997
by Hawkins Brown, a training centre
Boleyn Road
Neighbourhood Centres, Borough Council offices. Islington’s four local
centres to house decentralized day-to-day services planned in 1982, following
the lead of Walsall. Thirteen built or
converted from existing buildings Chris Purslow, Borough Architect. Look cheap but red brick,
pantiled roofs and Mackintosh-style gridded windows. Part-polygonal, mostly open-plan offices,
with central clerestory-lit gallery useful for discreet surveillance and under
it, tiny interview rooms and a waiting area that opens into a garden segment.
Butterfield Green
Open space around footpath, to Butterfield's Church of St Matthias
Cecila Road
49 Norfolk Arms
Covlestone Crescent
Spottiswood’s Printing
Works HMSO
Colvestone School. Gothic
church school. 1862 by
Knightley.
Gothic Church
Hall. 1874 elaborately dormered
1874 by E.L. Blackburne. Verger’s
accommodation included. Listed Grade II but at one time
considered to be at risk.
alston
Cross
Hygienic covered shopping centre of c. 1992,
Downs Park Road
Elton Place
Elton Street
Gateway Mews
King Henrys Walk
Called this because Mildmay was part of a royal hunting
area.
Chorley Hall
1,5,11 Mildmay Villas
8 Order of the Ursulines of
Jesus
Tudor Court site of Tilers
and Bricklayer’s Almshouses
Almshouses of Worshipful
Company of Dyers
Docwra’s Building, 1 was
offices of Thomas Docwra and Sons, well borers and general contractors
57 Bakehouse shop with oven
in the basement, opened 1863 was 6 St Jude’s Place. Adam Hexamer German baker, 1867. Was King Henry’s Bakery owned by Simon Mill
also German. 1907 John Jacobi. Stayed there in various forms until
1944. Anglicised in First World
War. 1951-82 builders and printers
St.Jude’s church
Mildmay Lodge
St.Jude’s Cottages
St. Jude’s Schools
Tudor Court
Kingsland,
Named because supposed to
have been a Royal residence on the green - some sort of institution for lepers
there. Part of Metropolitan Borough of
Hackney
Kingsland High Street
41 former Eel Pie and Mash
shop – fishy scenes and eely ornament. The Cockney spirit
continues. Fitted up in 1910 with
additions of the 1930s. Tiled
interior. Rear dining room of 1936 with coloured glass domes.
Rio Cinema. Victorian mood is broken by the cinema, 1913-15 by Adams & Coles, transformed in streamlined style by F. E.
Bammige in 1937, when a lower
auditorium was inserted below the still-surviving early c20 roof
structure. The exterior simplified
later. Curved corner
Former
cinema further north, cream-faience-fronted, at the
comer of Trumans Road.
Rio Cinema. The Kingsland Empire, an early cinema dating
from 1915 and an early design by the prolific George Coles, was rebuilt by
Bromige in 1937. The rather lofty original auditorium was truncated with a new
lower ceiling, which curved smoothly down dramatically to the front stalls and
the exterior was re-clad in ribbed stucco with its new name, the Classic, in
giant angular neon-lit lettering on the front and curving up the side wall. It
was one of the first of a famous circuit of repertory cinemas and at different
times it became known as the Classic Continental (from 1960) when
foreign-language films were tried and the Tatler Club from 1970, showing
"adult" films. Since 1976, it has operated as the Rio and become a
very popular and, until recently, rather bohemian and scruffy cinema venue. Now
a listed building, it has recently been sensitively and elegantly modernised by
architects Burrell Foley Fischer
Landor Court
Londesborough Park.
St.Faith bombed.
Matthias Road
St Matthias. Spearhead of the High Church campaign in
Hackney and Stoke Newington, led by Robert Brett, a resident of Newington
Green.Designed by William Butterfield, 1849-53; The post-war repairs, completed in 1954,
introduced a plain timber roof in place of Butterfield's red brick and stone
chancel vault, whitewashed walls, and a new organ gallery
Hewling Estate. five storey blocks. 1938. by Howes & Jackman, for Stoke Newington,
Mayville Estate. LCC. Thin interwar blocks with streamlined balconies contrasting with the pale brick additions
of the 1950s,
Palantine Avenue
Called after German
Protestant refugees settled in eighteenth century.
Palatine
House belonged to
Charles Greenwood friend of Wesley and Trustee of the Chapel friend Charles Greenwood, who had an
upholstery business in the City and was one of the first Trustees of Wesley's
Chapel. His father, James Greenwood, had been one of the earliest members at
the Foundery. Wesley retired here on several occasions, as did John Fletcher,
to rest and write
Palatine
Cottage where Anna
Sewell lived, built to accommodate refugees from the Palatine. childhood homes of author of Black Beauty.
Perch Street
Laid out on Tyssen Estate
1881. With
neat two- storey terraces by a
Hoxton builder, John Grover. They have
the dates 1881-4, and are reminiscent of progressive
low-rise philanthropic housing of this time.
Queen Margaret’s Court
Queen Margaret’s Grove
Ridley Road
Birkbeck schools pictures
gothic brick school
Street market, lively and
chaotic. Once scene of riots between
Fascists and Jews. Entrance to the market
by Freeform Artworks planned 1997.
Sandringham Road
Estate of the 1940s. Heart of the area. Appropriately Gothic
terraces of
1867 opposite. The heart of the area developed by
the local builders Jordan & Paine.
Vicarage by Chester Cheston,
1872-3.
8 All
Nations Hairdressing Salon.
Seal Street
Laid out on Tyssen Estate
1881. With
neat two- storey terraces by a
Hoxton builder, John Grover. They have
the dates 1881-4, and are reminiscent of progressive
low-rise philanthropic housing of this time.
Shacklewell
Green. Managed by Hackney
District Board
Smart middle class housing grew up around St.Mark’s church
Shacklewell House stood on
the north west corner of the green. Site
of Seal Street. Heron family home and
later owned by Tyssen
Shacklewell Lane
Its old
origin indicated by an c19 group on the side, convened to flats
c. 1990
Triangle. Managed by Hackney District Board
105 Edna’s
Hairdressing Salon
Gateway Mews
new housing tactfully fitted in behind
Kingsland School. The older parts built as Dalston County
Secondary, 1938 by the LCC (E. P. Wheeler).
St. Barnabas Merchant Taylors' School
Mission, 1909-11, an early work by Sir Charles Reilly, decorated by
1935-6. The chancel screen in the
same taste, with figures by Tyson Smith added in 1935, is a piquant addition,
which comes off much more happily than one might expect. Chancel fittings by Reilly. c19 Gothic pulpit from Christ Church,
Rendlesham Road.
Mission
Rooms facing the road, 1890, .
Merchant Taylors’ school
mansions 1910. Nicely grouped for
details. Estate best of the post
war. Peoples Farm
Uktit Sheik Nazim Mosque
and Cultural Centre. Built as a
synagogue. 1903 by Lewis
Solomon. Central dome added in 1983 when
it became a mosque, the earliest of Hackney's large mosques.
Shacklewell Baths. 1931, by the Borough Engineer Percival Holt
Shacklewell Road
Estate. Planned by Gibberd for Hackney
in 1945. A
long strip extending to Stoke Newington Road. Built 1946-7.
An influential pioneer example of 'mixed development',
including both houses and flats, in reaction to the standard pre-war solution of flats for the city,
cottages for the suburbs.ingredients of the Festival of
Britain style are still recognizable: coloured ceramic tiles and porches and little curved balconies of
Regency inspiration
Somerford Estate. Planned by Gibberd for Hackney in 1945. Festival of Britain style. Experimenting with
flats and maisonettes grouped. Won Festival of Britain merit award
Shacklewell Row
Shacklewell. Post 1965 ILEA
school. .
St.Barnabas. It takes some
finding. Not visible from the street. Merchant Taylor’s School Mission. 1909. Nave with concrete tunnel vaults.
Mission Rooms
Shakespeare Walk
Somerford Road
Halevi Community Centre
previously a factory of 1929
Health Centre.
St.Jude Street
Some
rehabilitation of the 1980s, ending in a varied two- and three-storey group of
sheltered housing
St.Mark’s Rise
Smart
middle- class housing grew up
in the 1860s around the colossal Church of St
Mark
St.Mark’s church. Brick church of 1864. Choir boys wear pinstripe, external
barometer. Chester Cheston architect for
Amhurst Estate for which his father was the solicitor. On the tower a turret barometer.
Church Hall .
Stoke Newington
Metropolitan Borough, name
means new village on the borders of a wood
S.Simpson 2,500 on
protected work pre 1939 also in Lanark since 1940
Stoke Newington Road
linking Stoke Newington and Dalston,
has later c19 terraces, the best group attached to an elaborately stuccoed pub
at the comer of
109 is older, c. 1800, lone survivor from a hamlet called the Palatine estate after
an early c19 settlement of German Protestants.
Halevi Community Centre a large former factory of 1929 by Hobden &
Pom,
Princess May Road School
1900 board school. With dignified gabled frontage to Stoke
Newington Road. As elsewhere in London,
the type developed from the 1870s, to the full-blown formal three-decker
compositions of T.J. Bailey of the 1890s and beyond.
Somerfield Estate
Alexandra Theatre
Savoy Cinema
St.Paul. 1958. Replacing bombed St. James.
Aziziye Mosque. Former
cinema altered in 1992. Stucco-fronted. A domed prayer hall, with enlarged windows and small domes
to comer towers.
Magistrates Court built as
Dalston Police Court by the Office of Works.
Not in use now. Built 1889
by John Taylor.
Well Court
Woodville Road
Wordsworth Road
Electricity Sub
Station 1930. Pretty former
Ickborough School. Special school. Cosham building system can be
dismantled. WCs in the centre rest round
the outside.
Baptist Church 1894
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