Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church
OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WARWICK STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273895
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church
- Statutory Address:
- OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WARWICK STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273895
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WARWICK STREET W1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WARWICK STREET W1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29311 80784
Details
TQ 2980 NW
70/110
24-2-58
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
WARWICK STREET Wl
Our Lady of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church
GII*
Built as the Portuguese Embassy Chapel c.1730, transferred to the Bavarian Embassy in 1736; rebuilt 1788 after the Gordon Riots.Red brick,slate roof.Deliberately domestic looking elevation.Two storeys.Three window wide pedimented centre with narrow flanking bays.Central corniced doorway and flanking flat gauged brick arched windows.First floor level has three blind semicircular arched windows.Stone bracket cornice and pediment.Inside the western part of the Chapel has retained its C18 character with galleries around three sides on wood grained columns with Adam style capitals and ceiling plasterwork in similar vein.Cast iron gallery balustrades by Bentley who shortened them when he altered the east end in a Veneto-Byzantine manner from 1874 onwards,the apse faced in grey marble panels with mosaics of 1910 and the saints in panels even later.Font of 1788.Large relief sculptures of the Assumption,formerly part of High Altar by J.E Carew,1853.Early C19 Italian neo-classical altar originating from Foxcote House,Ilmington,Warwicks.Survey of London;vol XXXI
Listing NGR: TQ2931180784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207498
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of Westminster Part 2 North of Piccadilly: Volumes 31 and 32 , Vol. 31, (1963)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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