CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE

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-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1239817
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARYLEBONE, MARYLEBONE ROAD, NW1

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983)
Summerson, J , Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, (1970)
Summerson, J, Georgian London, (1945)
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.