Church of St Margaret, Westminster
Church of St Margaret, Westminster, Parliament Square SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1226286
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster, Parliament Square SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1226286
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster, Parliament Square SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster, St Margaret Street SW1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster, Parliament Square SW1
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Margaret, Westminster, St Margaret Street SW1
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 30124 79547
Details
TQ 3079 NW
92/54
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PARLIAMENT SQUARE, SW1 (south side)
Church of St Margaret, Westminster
24.2.58
GV
I
Parish church. C11/C12 foundation, rebuilt early C16: c1504 the nave and aisles, with west tower begun 1515, chancel c1518; by the Westminster Abbey masons Robert Stowell and Henry Redman. Extensive C18 and C19 restoration: most of tower rebuilt 1735-37 by John James; 1778 south east vestry; west porch by J.L Pearson; projecting east end of chancel 1905 by G.G Scott. Portland stone refacing and renewed tracery. Late Perpendicular. Crenellated parapets to aisles; tall clerestory with plain parapets. Polygonal buttressed tower with large framed Perpendicular bell openings, quatrefoil frieze and panelled battlements. Inside the nave and chancel are not separated but a single eight bay vessel, slender shafted piers to two-centred arcade with traceried spandrels, clerestory over. East window has fine Gothic-Renaissance transitional Flemish stained glass, probably part of Katharine of Aragon's dowry and intended for Henry VII's Chapel; west window 1882 by Clayton and Bell; south aisle west window 1882 by Henry Holiday; north aisle: west window 1888 by Clayton and Bell, two north windows 1888 and 1891 by Edward Frampton; 1966 abstract glass by John Piper. Good collection of monuments.
Listing NGR: TQ3012079545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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