Church Architecture

in Enfield a history

Medieval
All Saints Church Street, Edmonton
Dates mainly from the 15th century, but south wall incorporates Norman fragments discovered during restoration in 1889. The nave has a fine 15th century cambered tiebeam roof. There is an unusually large and well preserved churchyard.
St Andrews, Enfield Town
A large building dating mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries, prominently sited in the Market Place. Contains a suberb 18th century organ case and fine collection of monuments, in particular the brass to Lady Joyce Tiptoft (1446) and the memorial to Sir Nicholas Rainton of Forty Hall (1646).
Early Nineteenth Century
St Paul, Church Hill, Winchmore Hill
Built 1827/8 to the designs of John Davies. Perpendicular style in yellow stock brick. Attractive setting adjoining Grovelands Park.
St James, Hertford Road, Enfield Highway
Built 1831 to the designs of William Lockner. Thin perpendicular style in stock brick. Pinnacled tower.
Jesus Church, Forty Hill
By Thomas Ashwell, 1835. Design copied/pirated from Holy Trinity, Tottenham. Early English style in stock brick. West front flanked by twin pepperpot turrets.
Christ Church, Chalk Lane, Cockfosters
By H.E. Kendall, 1839. Early English style in stock brick. Thin tower capped with a broach spire.
Victorian and Edwardian
St John, Clay Hill
By James Piers St. Aubyn, 1857. A small building in a delightful setting. Remarkable polychrome brickwork in the windowheads.
Christ Church, Waterfall Road, Southgate
By Sir George Gilbert Scott. 1863. A large and impressive Victorian gothic building with a tall stone spire. Contains some suberb William Morris stained glass.
St Mary Magdalene, Windmill Hill
By William Butterfield, 1883. A large and sumptuous building with an impressive tower and spire.
St Luke, Browning Road
By James Brooks, 1899/1903. A large building of red brick in the architect's favourite Early English style. Sombre interior.
St Aldhelm, Silver Street, Edmonton
By William Douglas Caroë, 1903. A fine example of Art Nouveau gothic.
St John, Green Lanes, Palmers Green
By John Oldrid Scott, 1904/9. Impressive exterior. Central tower with pyramid cap and twin spirelets flanking the east window. Rich-textured masonry with bands of stone, panels of flint and red brick.
St Stephen, Village Road
By J.S.Alder, 1906 and 1916. Large and spacious building, impressive in its proportions. Ashlar masonry of very fine quality. Base of unfurnished tower serves as a porch.
Modern
St Peter, Vera Avenue, Grange Park
By Cecil A Farey, 1941. Contains an 18th century baluster font formerly at the City Church of St Katherine Coleman.
St Thomas, Sheringham Avenue, Oakwood
By Romilly B Craze, 1941. Cool and impressive interior. The west end, including the tower, was completed in 1965.
© Graham Dalling 2006

This document was last updated on 2005-12-30 12:30:21 published by the Libraries team. Document Reference:LBE_112643