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Christchurch Road, LONDON, N8 9QL

... defying the march of the gastro-pub!

Situated in Crouch End Hill, this TE has the code LNCED. It provides telephone and broadband services to 21,612 residential and 1,072 non-residential premises in Crouch End, plus Highgate and Hornsey nearby. Until the late 1960s, it used to have FITzroy and MOUntview numbers. FITzroy took its name from Fitzroy Park in Highgate, whilst MOUntview was named after Mount View Road in Crouch Hill. Now it has 0208-340, 341, 347 and 348 numbers. The postcode of this TE is N8 8DH.

Looking northeast.

Extract from Crouch End Conservation Area report of 2010 Park Chapel, No. 145 Crouch Hill, currently known as the Mount Zion Cathedral, is a large mid 19th Century local listed two storey stone church building that extends along the back of the pavement and terminates the views along Haringey Park. The east elevation has Gothic influences with lancet windows, gables and tall slate roofs. The central section has a two storey projecting porch with a parapet and a tall tower with a pointed spire. The south end has a squat tower with a stone eaves cornice and hipped slate roof. The height, length and bulk of the Chapel building has a somewhat overbearing effect upon this narrow part of Crouch Hill and has a significant impact on the appearance of this part of the conservation area.

"Park Chapel, at the foot of Crouch Hill, was opened in 1855 and registered by Congregationalists in 1856. Alterations raised its seating to 1,017 in 1877 and 1,430 by 1894. After further extensions it had 816 worshippers in the morning and 671 in the evening on one Sunday in 1903, the largest Congregationalist attendances in Hornsey. The chapel and its halls formed a popular social centre, accommodating Hornsey British school until 1877 and later being described as a 'great church'. From 1973 Baptists from Ferme Park shared Park chapel, by then a United Reformed church and still seating circa 1,400." Source: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 6: Friern Barnet, Finchley, Hornsey with Highgate (1980), pp. 183-189. Now partly in use as a recording studio and the Mount Zion Cathedral.

Abbots Terrace has been tarmac'ed since I took my photo of it Image] in 2018 but this is probably only a surface skim as the large sign reminds us it is a weak road. A one bedroom terrace house here will cost you over half a million pounds.

The Cathedral of Zion currently meets around the rear entrance of the church.

The cottages are quite recent, the 1975/80 map denotes a 'Works' here.