Church of St Marylebone, City of Westminster, London

Entry Name: Church of St Marylebone

Listing Date: 10 September 1954

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1239817

English Heritage Legacy ID: 417825

Also known as: St. Marylebone Parish Church

ID on this website: 101239817

Location: St Marylebone Church, Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1U

County: London

District: City of Westminster

Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: City of Westminster

Traditional County: Middlesex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: St Marylebone

Church of England Diocese: London

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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

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