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Seen from Queensbridge Road. In the foreground, Kent Court. The white block n the background is Fellows Court.
Fellows Court is a housing estate in Hackney. Built in 1963 and designed by LCC Architects’ Department. In addition to this 15-storey block there is a second similar block to the north, plus several low-rise blocks.
Best viewed in large.
Lovely bit of background:
"It is an awe-inspiring experience to enter this impressive church. Sometimes known as the Cathedral of the East End (although Stepney folk would argue that Dalston isn’t in the East End at all!) it is the biggest parish church in London, towering over the surrounding substantial gothic style houses. Surveyor of the Manor of Hackney, Chestor Cheston (Jnr.) was the architect of the church consecrated in 1870. The impressive tower was added in 1877-80 by E.L.Blackburn. The builders were Dove Brothers of Islington who are still in business today. Bridget Cherry describes the tower as a piling on of ‘Teulonesque effects with its ‘boldly striped upper part, the octagonal top with circular turrets and large gargoyles clustered around a stumpy gabled spire’ (S.S.Teulon was the 19th century architect of among other London churches St. Stephen’s Hampstead. Pevsner described him as ‘impressive’ but ‘hamfisted’). It possesses implanted in its side a working barometer, unique in Europe.
John Betjeman describes the interior as aglow with ‘scalding glass’. Over the years its Victorian character has been carefully preserved, particularly by the previous incumbent over many years, the colourful and controversial Rev. Donald Pateman. The Parish Magazine for Spring1985 carried the following full-page imprecation:
In 1945 A.Hitler was DEMOLISHED
In 1985 A.Scargill is being ROUTED!
SO MAY ALL THINE ENEMIES PERISH, O YAHWEH"