Thursday, 27 November 2014

St Stephen's Rosslyn Hill / tower and wheel window

Architect: S.S.Teulon, c.1871, in a French Gothic style using purple brick and Kentish ragstone. 
 "...a brooding and bulgy central tower made into a macabre Gothic dirge..." (Ian Nairn).
Winner of an English Heritage Angels Award in 2011 for repair and rescue of heritage at risk. Grade I listed. Hampstead, London Borough of Camden.
Exterior detail of the west facing wheel window with plate tracery.

(Both images CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 - attribute: Images George Rex.)