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Notes in italics from London 4:
North by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner
(2001),
Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Both the dedication to a Roman
saint (cf. Canterbury) and the discovery of a C7 altar stone suggest that
this was one of the earliest churches to be established in the London
area. However, by the Middle Ages the main settlement in the parish had
shifted northwards to Kentish Town, and the little building stood alone in
its large churchyard until surrounded by expanding London in the early
C19. The medieval church consisted of chancel, nave and W tower. Surviving
details, much restored, indicate a C12 rebuilding: in the chancel a Norman
S doorway with two-way chevron (second picture in upper
row), in the nave traces of a Norman N door (visible inside - not
shown here). Remains of a C13 lancet in the chancel N wall (not
shown here). The church was crudely Normanized in 1848 by
Roumieux & Gough, who removed the medieval tower and replaced it with
a W extension with W gallery, and a S porch with tower and spire above,
truncated later, when the incongruous half-timbering was introduced.
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The last picture shows the medieval church in 1800 (a plaque in the
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