This booklet is a self guided walk around the church tower, the bell tower for the three successive parish churches and the only remaining building which has been conserved and watched over by the Friends of Hornsey Church Tower for the past 28 years.
Churches
Hymns and Rock Music: Park Chapel, Crouch End
Another article in our series about church buildings which have changed their function. This imposing mid-1850s building is best viewed from Haringey Park N8 or whilst walking on Crouch Hill. …
Ivy-Mantled Tower
As the Old Schoolhouse has been closed, we’ve been running an occasional series sharing extracts from HHS publications. Ivy-Mantled Tower was published in 2015. Its author, Bridget Cherry, is Vice …
Ivy-Mantled Tower – A History of the Church and Churchyard of St Mary Hornsey, Middlesex
Ivy-Mantled Tower is a hard-back book with 138 pages and 202 illustrations. It tells the compelling story of a succession of buildings from the medieval church with its bell tower (which still stands) to an 1833 church, followed by a the building of a late Victorian church which was demolished in 1969.
Public Notice – Faithful Servants Tablet
In 2019 a marble tablet or plaque was discovered in a garden in Muswell Hill. Research has shown that it is almost beyond doubt that it belonged to Hornsey Church. …
Shaftesbury Hall in Bowes Park
Situated in Herbert Road N11, Shaftesbury Hall was registered in 1885 and became an Infants School in the early 1900s.
St Luke’s Church, Mayfield Road, Hornsey
This is the third article in our 2022 series on Church buildings which have changed their function. Seeking your dream apartment in North London, modern but with a quirky …
St Mary’s Tower Memorial Boards
Inside St Mary’s Tower in Hornsey High Street on the north wall of the ground floor room are four panels mounted as one memorial board listing the names of 136 …
The Methodist Church in Muswell Hill and North Bank – a Survivor!
Visitors discover a most unusual combination in Pages Lane: a modern church situated neatly between the mid-Victorian family house of North Bank and its stable block.
The Old Parish Church of Hornsey
This short account of the history of St Mary’s Church describes the complex development and demise of Hornsey’s three parish churches.