Queen's Avenue Congregational Church, Muswell Hill

Erected on the corner of Queens Avenue and Tetherdown, London Borough of Harringay, it has a slate roof with gable ends and its walls are faced in roughcast render with stone quoins, window surrounds and tracery. Vestries, a lecture hall and parlour are incorporated behind the east end. According to Cherry and Pevsner, "Nicely detailed, Perpendicular…roughcast with stone dressings. Handsome inside with piers without capitals, broad barrel-vaulted roof, and galleried transepts."

The land was donated by James Edmondson. The son of a former Cumberland farmer who had set up a building business in Islington, Edmondson was to become an important developer building suburban houses from Golders Green to Winchmore Hill.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MUSWELL HILL - The foundation-stone of a new Congregational church was laid at Muswell Hill on the 22nd ult. The architect is Mr. P. Morley Horder. [Builder 5 November 1898 page 414]

Reference    Cherry and Pevsner, London 4: North, The Buildings of England. p. 552.
Reference    Islington Gazette 25 October 1898 page 3 -foundation stone ceremony