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Latitude: 51.5303 / 51°31'48"N
Longitude: -0.1443 / 0°8'39"W
OS Eastings: 528817
OS Northings: 182893
OS Grid: TQ288828
Mapcode National: GBR C5.RM
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.GS2S
Plus Code: 9C3XGVJ4+47
Entry Name: Christ Church
Listing Date: 10 June 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1378620
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476573
Also known as: St. George's Cathedral
Saint George's Cathedral
ID on this website: 101378620
Location: Regent's Park, Camden, London, NW1
County: London
District: Camden
Electoral Ward/Division: Regent's Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Camden
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Mary Magdalene Munster Sq.
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Cathedral Neoclassical architecture Eastern Orthodox cathedral
CAMDEN
TQ2882NE ALBANY STREET
798-1/87/29 (East side)
10/06/54 Christ Church
II*
Church. 1836. By Sir James Pennethorne. Alterations by RC
Carpenter 1839-43 and alterations and decoration by William
Butterfield, 1849-85. Grey stock brick with stucco and stone
dressings. Neo-Grecian style. Rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: main central entrance on south facade; shallow
portico with pilasters carrying entablature which continues
around the building. Shallow pediment; roundels in frieze
depicting a dove, "IHS", and a triangle. Architraved,
trapezoidal doorway with heavy panelled doors and overlight.
Portico flanked by round-arched windows. At the angles, small
square pavilions. Above the main entrance, brick tower of 3
stages, middle stage with columns and broken entablature and
top stage with thin steeple. West facade with 5 tall
round-arched windows flanked by brick pilasters carrying
entablature. In corner pavilions at angles architraved,
trapezoidal doorways with console bracketed pediments and
panelled doors. East facade single storey extension running
the length of the church. North facade cement rendered with
projecting rectangular sanctuary with C20 cross.
INTERIOR: galleried. Marble floor by Butterfield. Glass by
Clayton and Bell; a window depicting The Sermon on the Mount
on the east side designed by DG Rossetti, 1864. Many fittings
now at St Mary Magdalene, Munster Square (qv).
(Survey of London: Vol. XXI, Tottenham Court Road and
Neighbourhood, St Pancras III: London: -1949: 150).
Listing NGR: TQ2881782893
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