Wedding Photographer Islington — Upper Street, Canonbury Squares and the Angel
Islington is one of London’s most architecturally consistent inner boroughs — a sequence of Georgian and Regency squares, terraces and crescents running north from the Angel along Upper Street to Highbury, interspersed with the independent restaurants, bars and cultural venues that have made Upper Street one of the best-known streets in north London. For Islington wedding photography, the borough’s appeal lies in the quality of its Georgian street fabric: the stucco terraces and iron railings of Canonbury Square and Canonbury Place, the grand Victorian ensemble of Highbury Fields and the intimate enclosed gardens of the Barnsbury Estate provide portrait settings of consistent architectural elegance within easy walk of almost any Islington venue.
Canonbury, De Beauvoir Town and Highbury Fields
Canonbury Square — one of the best-preserved Regency squares in inner London, with its original 1820s stucco terraces largely intact — provides a portrait setting of formal Georgian elegance immediately available from most north Islington venues. The Canonbury Tower, an Elizabethan tower house in the centre of Canonbury, offers a setting of exceptional antiquity and very unusual character for a venue in Zone 2. De Beauvoir Town to the east — a Victorian planned estate with consistent architecture and mature plane tree street planting — provides the Islington equivalent of the Garden Square and provides portrait backdrops with a higher architectural consistency than almost anywhere else in inner north London. Highbury Fields, a 29-acre open green space with a Victorian iron bandstand, provides a more spacious and open landscape for group portraits and reception candid shots.
Islington Town Hall, Upper Street and the Regent’s Canal
Islington Town Hall on Upper Street — an Edwardian baroque civic building in Portland stone of considerable grandeur — provides one of London’s finest register office ceremony settings and is licenced for civil weddings in several of its public rooms. The Regent’s Canal at Islington — the canal enters an 886-metre tunnel under the Islington ridge between the Angel basin at City Road and the Thornhill Road exit north of the ridge — provides canal portrait settings at the City Road basin (with its view of the tunnel mouth) and at the Thornhill Road section, where the towpath runs between the back gardens of Barnsbury and Barnard Park. The towpath continues westward through Macclesfield Bridge and King’s Cross Goods Yard to the Paddington basin, making it a continuous east-west portrait axis available for extended wedding day portrait walks.