Swedish Church
SWEDISH CHURCH, HARCOURT STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229504
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swedish Church
- Statutory Address:
- SWEDISH CHURCH, HARCOURT STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229504
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swedish Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWEDISH CHURCH, HARCOURT STREET W1
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:
- SWEDISH CHURCH, HARCOURT 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 27450 81715
Details
TQ 2781 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARCOURT STREET, W1 42/4 (north-east side) Swedish Church. GV II Church flanked by subsidiary wings. 1910 foundation stone. By Wigglesworth and A H Hagg. Ashlar faced. Welsh slate roofs, copper fleche to west end of nave. Eclectic Arts and Crafts Gothic to church, Jacobean domestic to side wings. Church at 1st floor level flanked by offices. 2-bay nave with single bay lower chancel. To Harcourt Street: gabled west wall of church with projecting porch, flanked by lower adjoining wings of 3 storeys with dormers and 3 bays. West wall of church: gabled porch with shafted pointed arch flanked by wide embattled pilaster buttresses. Inscription plaque with foundation date to left of porch. Above porch a square-headed window with trefoil lights, the Swedish Royal Arms and a stepped group of tall pointed windows, the central one of 2 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil over. Wings: segment-arched entrances flanking west end of church. Mullion and transom windows flush with wall with leaded lights. Ground floor windows under segmental arches. Canted oriels to centre bays rising through 1st and 2nd floors with cornices and parapets. Ornamental lead guttering and down pipes. Interior of church: nave has timber west gallery/organ loft with blind tracery. 2-light trefoiled windows with quatrefoils in heads. Barrel vault with moulded decoration. Tall, continuously moulded chancel arch. Single-light trefoiled windows and rose window to east. Fittings include pulpit and panelling to chancel with open-pedimented reredos with Composite columns.
Listing NGR: TQ2745081715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210064
- 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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