Cloudesley Square was begun in 1825 by carpenter John Emmett,
who released land from the Cloudesley Estate and built along the
Liverpool Road from 1824 to 1826. A hexagonal railed garden at the
centre of the square surrounds Holy Trinity Church by Sir Charles
Barry, built 1826-29, the third of his Islington churches. The
square is named after 16th-century landowner Richard Cloudesley,
who gave land to the church. The church's stained glass east window
of 1828 shows Cloudesley kneeling. Holy Trinity was the district
church until the 1850s, when it was replaced by St Andrew's at
Thornhill Crescent. In 1980 it was leased by the Pentecostal Sect
as the Celestial Church of Christ, at which time the railings were
also restored.
