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Latitude: 51.5154 / 51°30'55"N
Longitude: -0.1472 / 0°8'49"W
OS Eastings: 528661
OS Northings: 181239
OS Grid: TQ286812
Mapcode National: GBR CB.4Y
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.D5KL
Plus Code: 9C3XGV83+54
Entry Name: Church of St Peters
Listing Date: 10 September 1954
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1357345
English Heritage Legacy ID: 207377
ID on this website: 101357345
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, W1G
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: All Souls Langham Place
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Church building
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER VERE STREET W1
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Church of St Peter's
10.9.54
I
Built as the Oxford Chapel for the Chandos Estate. 1721-24 by James Gibbs. Brown
brick with red brick dressings and Portland stone, rusticated quoins, slate roof.
Simple preaching box judged from outside with semicircular and segmental arched
windows. Block bracketed cornice and parapet to long sides. Pedimented gable ends, at
west end surmounted by smallsquare brick bell tower with bracketed cornice and domed
octagonal 2-stage lead cupola. Doric tetrastyle stone pedimented at west end between
architraved doorways with pediments. The interior despite screening off of aisles
below galleries, is a forerunner in miniature of St Martin -in-the-Fields. Giant
columns on pedestals rise to cross-vaults and segmental nave ceiling. Delicate and
lovely Rococo plasterwork to shallow sanctuary and main ceiling by Bagutti. Stained
glass by Burne Jones (Morris & Co) in east window of 1871 and south window 1882, north
1889.
Listing NGR: TQ2866081242
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