Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MAIDEN LANE WC2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238978
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MAIDEN LANE WC2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1238978
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jan-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MAIDEN LANE WC2
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRESBYTERY, 1, MAIDEN LANE WC2
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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:
- CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH, MAIDEN LANE WC2
- Statutory Address:
- PRESBYTERY, 1, MAIDEN LANE WC2
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 30385 80779
Details
TQ 3080 NW
72/87
CITY OF WESTMINSTER,
MAIDEN LANE, WC2
No 1 (Presbytery) and Corpus Christi Church
15.1.73
II
Church with presbytery. 1873-74 by Frederick Hyde Pownall. Stock brick
with stone dressings, slate roofs. Early English style. Rectangular plan
with ritual west narthex at north end to street where it is surmounted by a
massive square tower, its upper stage with clasping buttresses and corbel
table, 3 tall lights stone dressed with gabled arches on colonettes; short
pyramidal slate spire with small lucarnes. The church entrance, a moulded
and chamfered pointed arch opening to a vaulted passage, is set in the
ground floor of the adjoining presbytery to left. This has a 4 storey, 4
window wide front of plain design. Flat stone heads to narrow sash windows
beneath relieving arches. 3rd floor windows as stone gabled half dormers.
Church interior has 4 bay nave beyond narthex, with aisles and 2 bay
sanctuary with flanking chapels. Lancet lights and plate tracery. Open
arched collar braced king post timber roof. Brick walls and stone
dressings have been painted. Elaborate reredos and altar of Caen stone by
Earp. Medieval octagonal stone font, Early English in style.
Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.
Listing NGR: TQ3038180771
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 416676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St Paul Covent Garden: Volume 36, Vol. 36, (1970)
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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