CHRIST CHURCH

CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1356972
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1356972
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS

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:: CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS

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 27302 81893

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/01/2017

TQ 2781 NW 42/1

CITY OF WESTMINSTER COSWAY STREET, NW1 (west side) No 35 Christ Church

(Formerly listed as Christ Church, COSWAY STREET)

10.9.54

II* Former church.1824-5 by Philip Hardwick. Additions/alterations of 1887 by Sir A W Blomfield. Brick nave with ashlar dressings, ashlar portico and tower. Classical style. Reversed orientation. Nave and chancel of 8 bays with single bay projection. Portico to east surmounted by tower. Ionic tetrastyle portico with pediment and balustraded parapet flanked by pedimented windows. Paired Ionic columns to portico returns. 3-stage tower with square Ionic peristyle with cylindrical core rising into octagonal cupola with volutes. To body of church round-headed windows in architraves with continuous sill band. Balustraded parapet. Oculus to gable of single-bay projection.

Interior 8-bay Corinthian arcade, clerestory windows above entablature cut into the low arched ceiling with ribs and oval panels. Galleries. Corinthian pilasters to east wall.

Church redundant at time of resurvey. Interior not inspected.

B F L Clarke Parish Churches of London, p.128.

Listing NGR: TQ2730281893

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Legacy System number:: 209332
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.