Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356972
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, 35, COSWAY STREET, NW1 5NS
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 27302 81893
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/01/2017
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 209332
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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