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Latitude: 51.5216 / 51°31'17"N
Longitude: -0.1665 / 0°9'59"W
OS Eastings: 527302
OS Northings: 181893
OS Grid: TQ273818
Mapcode National: GBR 68.SQ
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.20BV
Plus Code: 9C3XGRCM+J9
Entry Name: Christ Church
Listing Date: 10 September 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1356972
English Heritage Legacy ID: 209332
Also known as: Christ Church, Cosway Street
ID on this website: 101356972
Location: Lisson Grove, Westminster, London, NW1
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Church 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 Paul, St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building
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TQ 2781 NW
42/1
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
COSWAY STREET, NW1 (west side)
No 35 Christ Church
(Formerly listed as Christ Church, COSWAY STREET)
10.9.54
II*
Former church.1824-5 by Philip Hardwick. Additions/alterations of 1887 by Sir A W Blomfield. Brick nave with ashlar dressings, ashlar portico and tower. Classical style. Reversed orientation. Nave and chancel of 8 bays with single bay projection. Portico to east surmounted by tower. Ionic tetrastyle portico with pediment and balustraded parapet flanked by pedimented windows. Paired Ionic columns to portico returns. 3-stage tower with square Ionic peristyle with cylindrical core rising into octagonal cupola with volutes. To body of church round-headed windows in architraves with continuous sill band. Balustraded parapet. Oculus to gable of single-bay projection.
Interior 8-bay Corinthian arcade, clerestory windows above entablature cut into the low arched ceiling with ribs and oval panels. Galleries. Corinthian pilasters to east wall.
Church redundant at time of resurvey. Interior not inspected.
B F L Clarke Parish Churches of London, p.128.
Listing NGR: TQ2730281893
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