Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q27081646

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