Aviation House, formerly the Church of the Holy Trinity, is a grade II listed building at 125-127 Kingsway (formerly Little Queen Street), in the London Borough of Camden.

History

The Church of the Holy Trinity was built of

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between 1909 and 1911 in an Edwardian Baroque style to a design by John Belcher and John James Joass. The facade was modelled on S. Maria della Pace in Rome by

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. The interior was not completely finished due to a lack of money and a proposed tower was never built. The church was originally a

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able to seat 1000. It replaced the original Little Queen Street Chapel (1829–31) whose foundations had been weakened during the construction of the

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HOLY TRINITY, KINGSWAY: KINGSWAY, CAMDEN.
London Metropolitan Archives. Retrieved 17 January 2017. and which was demolished in 1909. The building was listed

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in 1974. The church was closed by 1991. The rear was redeveloped into offices around 1999 with the listed front retained.''Conservation Area Statement 16: Kingsway''.
London Borough of Camden, London, 2011. p. 8. It was renamed Aviation House. Previous tenants have included

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. The offices are now home to a

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coworking space.

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