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Latitude: 51.5422 / 51°32'31"N
Longitude: -0.1627 / 0°9'45"W
OS Eastings: 527511
OS Northings: 184188
OS Grid: TQ275841
Mapcode National: GBR 71.NB
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.4HCM
Plus Code: 9C3XGRRP+VW
Entry Name: Church of St Mary the Virgin
Listing Date: 14 May 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1329902
English Heritage Legacy ID: 477795
ID on this website: 101329902
Location: Primrose Hill, Camden, London, NW3
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Swiss Cottage
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Primrose Hill
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building
CAMDEN
TQ2784SE PRIMROSE HILL ROAD
798-1/63/1336 (West side)
14/05/74 Church of St Mary the Virgin
II
Church. 1871-2. By Michael P Manning; built by Dove Brothers.
c1891-2 south aisle and chapel added. Red brick with stone
dressings. Slated roofs with lugged brick eaves cornice. Early
French Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 3-bay aisled nave with clerestory and north
transept, apsidal-ended sanctuary and south-east chapel. Main
entrances on north elevation; western entrance with gabled
portico, eastern with gabled hoodmould, both with brick
moulded arches having bas relief tympana. Slightly pointed
lancet windows. Gabled transept with 3 arcaded windows, plate
tracery rose window and 3 linked lancets in apex. Chancel has
5 plate tracery windows flanked by buttresses; west end 3
arcades windows, plate tracery rose window flanked by oculi.
INTERIOR: has wagon roof to nave and transept; chancel and
south-east chapel are vaulted; aisles have flying buttresses.
Columns with stiff leaf capitals. Features by local artists
include stained glass by Clayton and Bell and CE Kempe,
enamelwork by Henry Holiday, reredos and pulpit by GF Bodley,
oak seating by Temple Moore.
HISTORICAL NOTE: due to the High Church practices of the first
incumbent St Mary the Virgin was not consecrated until 1885.
From 1901-15 the vicar, Percy Dearmer, editor of the English
Hymnal and Songs of Praise, made the church a showpiece of
liturgical worship and good music. His reforms included
whitewashing of the original red and black interior.
Listing NGR: TQ2751184188
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