Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Duke Street W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210923
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
Statutory Address:: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Duke Street W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1210923
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral
Statutory Address 1:: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Duke Street W1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Duke Street W1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28425 81013

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 April 2022 to correct the name, removal of superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 2881 SW 55/56 CITY OF WESTMINSTER DUKE STREET, W1 Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

(Formerly listed as Ukranian Catholic Cathedral, previously listed as The King's Weigh House Chapel)

14.1.70

GV II* Church. 1888-91 by Alfred Waterhouse, as a Congregational Church. Red brick and plentiful buff terracotta dressings (Burmantofts); tiled roofs. Carolingian Romanesque style. Corner-site running between Binney and Duke Streets.

Above the rectangular ground floor level rises the elliptical body of the auditorium; tripartite, west entrance front to Duke Street, its symmetry broken by south west corner tower with steeple and, to left, by gable and ventilation turret. Triple arcaded porch in antis approached by flight of steps; centre group of tall narrow round arched lancets above, inscribed under relieving arch, and elaborated gable with arcaded machicol ations. The tower has narrow arcaded screens to middle stage and octagonal bell stage within square, pinnacled, corner buttresses, spire with gablets. Coupled gabled doorways at head of steps to Binney Street/Weighhouse Street corner, surmounted by gabled dormer in ground storey parapet. The auditorium ellipse has a steep hipped roof with iron ridge cresting.

The interior has rectangular ground floor but the elliptical shape is picked up at first floor level by the horseshoe gallery upper walls and ceiling; glazed brick walls and four structural columns faced in faience; simple woodwork to gallery; sympathetic alterations to chancel by J.J. Burnet, 1903 including east window (with glass by Anning Bell) and east screen wall and flanking organ cases; pews introduced and pulpit removed for Ukrainian Cathedral with a confessional by J.F.Bentley from Westminster Cathedral; etc.

Listing NGR: TQ2842581013

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Legacy System number:: 209547
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Survey of London' in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , , Vol. 40, (1980)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.