Richard Griffiths Architects has been appointed to design the £6.5m rescue of a grade II*-listed deconsecrated church in north London.

Holy Trinity Church was designed by Charles Barry in 1829 and remains the focus of Cloudesley Square in Barnsbury, Islington. It was built on part of two “stony fields” donated by a 16^th-century local benefactor, Sir Richard Cloudesley, and is said to be modelled on Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.

However the building, which was vacated by a Nigerian Pentecostal church in 2018 and returned to the Church of England, is in a “very bad” state of repair, according to Historic England which placed it on its Heritage at Risk register.

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