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| English Heritage Reference: | 420169 |
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| RBKC Reference: | 20/1 |
| Property: | KENSINGTON TEMPLE |
| Street: | KENSINGTON PARK ROAD , W11 |
| Date: | 15/03/1974 |
| Grade: | II |
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| Description: | Church. Circa 1848-9 by J Tarvin formerly the Horbury Congregational Chapel until 1935; later the Church of the Foursquare Gospel and now the Elim Pentecostal Church. Geometrical Gothic style with square towers capped by low spires. Cruciform plan with 4 bay nave, transepts and shallow santuary containing the pulpit. Random rubble Kentish ragstone with ashlar dressings. Slated roof with parapets and coped gable to cast front flanked by towers. East window of 4-light with geometrical tracery. Central arched doorway with receding orders and hoodmould; flanking doorways In corner towers. Plain interior with galleries on 3 sides carried on cast iron columns and approached from tower staircases. |
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