221005 MArys D&AStatement - Flipbook - Page 33
4.13 Summary
This proposal rebuilds the 2005 St Mary’s Centre as the
new home for Mary’s Youthwork, and builds a small
two-storey extension on the same site.
This approach has the benefit of re-developing a
recent addition to the building without impacting
further on the listed fabric, and also provides high
quality spaces which respond to the ambitions of
Mary’s brief.
Our design responds to the site constraints and,
through redevelopment, improves the relationship of
the current east end of the church with the listed
building and with the street, as well as providing
valuable spaces.
As noted at Design Review, this proposal will be of very
high quality.
St Mary’s is a church with a varied and rich history, both
socially and architecturally. The architectural
progression of the parish, from the Boys’ Home, to the
Iron Church, Manning’s 1871 church and its series of
extensions, reflects the developing focus of parish
activities on local social need and benefit.
The new extension responds to the architecture of the
church through its use of form and material, presenting
the contemporary face of social ministry in the church
today.
The new extension will support the client’s work
helping disadvantaged young people in the same way
that the founding of the parish in the 1860s set out to
do. It is a reflection of the current and urgent social
need which the parish faces, and is a confident
expression of the life of the parish, and of its thriving
social outreach work which continues to be the centre
of parish life today.
Mary’s, Primrose Hill
Dow Jones Architects