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"New Classrooms", Presbyterian Church, Crouch Hill, 1889

Whilst The Architect provided no information about the building either with the picture or elsewhere in the paper, I was able to work out that it was probably the Sunday School behind the Presbyterian Church on Crouch Hill, facing the southernmost arm of Holly Park. I was subsequently able to confirm this with an entry referring to the same drawing printed in The Architect & Contract Reporter, March 4, 1892:

"William Dunn, architect. This building, of which the view shows the south front, was erected in 1889 as an addition to the Presbyterian church at Crouch Hill. The three large bay windows on the first floor are in the side of the young men's reading-room ; the bays on the ground-floor light the ministers' session-rooms. Behind these are other classrooms, and a hall seating about four hundred people. The latter is of a T-shape in plan, the arms of the T being formed by two short aisles behind stone arcades. All the windows are high up in the walls, and are filled with clear glass in lead. The site is a good one, being in an avenue of fine trees and holly hedges."


It is shown on the 1895 OS Town Plan (excerpted below).

Where it stood on is now empty ground, between two modern blocks of flats. What a shame the building was demolished. It could have made a great community centre for the council estate developed on that part of Holly Park.

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