What is Angel Recording Studios?
{{Infobox company | name = Angel Recording Studios Limited | logo = | image = 311 Upper Street, Islington.JPG | image_alt = A former church, converted into a recording studio | image_caption = Exterior of Angel Recording Studios | type = [[Subsidiary]] | industry = [[Music industry]] | founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1978|12|05}} | defunct = December 2019 | founder = James Warren Sylvester de Wolfe | hq_location = 311–312 [[Upper Street]] | hq_location_city = [[Islington]], [[London]] | hq_location_country = [[England]] | parent = [[De Wolfe Music]] }} '''Angel Recording Studios''' was a recording and mixing complex in [[Islington]], [[London]]. The studios were built by library music specialists [[de Wolfe Music]]. Housed in a former United Reform Church, the complex has three dedicated recording areas, one of which incorporates original Victorian choir stalls and features a magnificent Speechley pipe organ dating from 1888. Angel Recording Studios has played host to a variety of international and award-winning music creators, world-famous orchestras, television and film score composers, advertising jingle writers, West End musicals and numerous chart-topping pop acts. Angel Recording Studios closed in December 2019. ==History== ===The Building=== The studios opened as the Islington Chapel in 1887-1888, replacing an earlier chapel built in 1815.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1200832 |title=311 Upper Street |publisher=Pastscape |date=2015 |accessdate=4 January 2018}}</ref> It is [[Grade II listed]] and features a wealth of original features. The chapel organ made by H.Speechly and Sons remains in situ and working.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297947 | title=NUMBER 311 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, non Civil Parish - 1297947 &#124; Historic England }}</ref> ===Conversion=== The chapel closed its doors in 1979 and the building was purchased by [[de Wolfe Music]]. A major refurbishment and conversion project took place, and rec