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Latitude: 51.5109 / 51°30'39"N
Longitude: -0.1225 / 0°7'21"W
OS Eastings: 530385
OS Northings: 180779
OS Grid: TQ303807
Mapcode National: GBR JD.NK
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.T9L2
Plus Code: 9C3XGV6G+9X
Entry Name: Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery
Listing Date: 15 January 1973
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1238978
English Heritage Legacy ID: 416676
ID on this website: 101238978
Location: Strand, Westminster, London, WC2E
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: St James's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Paul Covent Garden
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building Architectural structure
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
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