The Grosvenor Chapel
THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236429
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Grosvenor Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL, SOUTH AUDLEY STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1236429
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- The Grosvenor Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL, SOUTH AUDLEY 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:
- THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL, SOUTH AUDLEY 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 28397 80520
Details
TQ 2880 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER SOUTH AUDLEY 68/88 STREET, Wl 24.2.58 The Grosvenor Chapel G.V. II* Grosvenor Estate chapel of ease to the parish of St. George's Hanover Square. 1729-30 by Benjamin Timbrell. Interior alterations by N. Comper early C.20. Stock brick with in part later stucco dressings, slate roof. Similar to St. Peter's Vere Street q.v., where Timbrell was builder under Gibbs, but not surprisingly a rather bolder version with massive pediment gables, that on west front broken by short tower and octagonal bell stage and slightly clumsy short spire. Four column Tuscan porch, the original pediment removed in alterations of 1828 when stucco scrolls and brackets to the main cornice of the tower were probably added, the tower quoins late C.19 or early C.20. Sides are 6 windows wide, the windows semicircular arched with stucco architraves. Interior has 3 galleries with square pillars below and Ionic columns above, the nave ceiling coved, the aisles groin vaulted. Alterations by Ninian Comper from 1912 in his mixed style with High Altar reredos advanced and giant Ionic columns carrying rood screen, creating Lady Chapel in original chancel with fine plasterwork of c.1730 to ceiling and the original tripartite reredos articulated by pilasters behind Comper's new Lady Altar. Finely carved pulpit of c.1730. 3 Comper windows in south aisle. Survey of London; Vol. XL. London; Vol. I, Pevsner.
Listing NGR: TQ2839780520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: London I - The Cities of London and Westminster, (1973)
Survey of London in Survey of London - The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 2 The buildings: Volume 40 , Vol. 40, (1980)
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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