3-046-975 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

St. Michael's Church, Kensington Park, [London], 1872. 'The land for this church was presented by Messrs. Parsons and Blake. The building is about 100 ft. long, with circular apses in addition, projecting 11 ft. at the eastern and western ends. The clear width is 43 ft., exclusive of the southern apse. Additional land has been acquired for the erection of a northern apse at a future time, and for an extension of the chancel. The roof is in one span, so that the view is quite unobstructed. The interior is moderately decorated in colour, but the eastern apse with considerable richness. The style is an adaptation of the Romanesque of the Rhine. The material is brick, ornamental bricks being much introduced; but the cornices, columns, and capitals are of red and buff terra-cotta. The window jambs are of red Mansfield and Forest of Dean stone, and the roof is tiled in bands of red and black. The architects were Messrs. J. and S. S. Edmeston, of Crown-court, Old Broad-street; the contractor was Mr. Cowland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.