Church of St Marylebone
CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1239817
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Marylebone
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1239817
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Marylebone
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1
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 MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1
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 28285 82034
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/12/2015
TQ 2882 SW
35/38
CITY OF WESTMINSTER,
MARYLEBONE ROAD (south side), NW1
Church of St Marylebone
(Formerly listed as Church of St Mary, Marylebone)
10.9.54
G.V. I
Parish church. 1813-18 by Thomas Hardwick; the chancel remodelled by
Thomas Harris, 1883-84. Portland stone; slate roof. Begun by Hardwick as
a chapel of ease similar to his St. John's, St. John's Wood Road q.v. but
elaborated as parish church with enlarged portico and prominent steeple to
the "west" front on Marylebone Road and diagonally set porches flanking
tie chancel allowing access by a broad flight of steps from Marylebone
High Street to the south (ritual east). Augustan "regular" classical
design church, apart from the tower caryatids, is in the tradition of
Hardwick's master Chambers. Giant hexastyle Corinthian portico with
pediment. Central architraved and consoled doorway and flanking gallery
doorways. Attendant wings with Corinthian antae doubled columns to
returns. Deep entablature and balustraded parapet. The tower rises
behind pediment in 3 stages with square, rusticated, clock stage carrying
Corinthian peristyled belfry stage surmounted by domed cupola with
caryatids separating semicircular arched lights of drum. Semicircular
arched windows to sides with main entablature returned and carried out
over chancel porches. Internally Hardwick's nave has a flat ceiling and
galleries on 3 sides with curved corners, second gallery on west side, all
carried on slender Ionic columns; Thomas Harris's chancel in with
Italianate Renaissance style; numerous early C.19 wall monuments. Nash in
laying out the Regent's Park terraces opened up the fine vista of York
Gate axial to Hardwick's portico.
London Vol II; Nikolaus Pesvner.
Architecture in Britain 1530-1830; Georgian London; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ2828182031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417825
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Summerson, J, Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, (1970)
Summerson, J, Georgian London, (1945)
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
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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