Description

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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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone at Wikipedia
• St Marylebone Parish Church, Marylebone official website
• Wikidata Q211300

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)