Shots taken as we walked down Marylebone Road, from Regent's Park (after leaving London Zoo), heading back to Marylebone Station to go home.
Took these shots of St Marylebone Parish Church as we headed back from Regent's Park down York Gate.
For some reason, Heritage Gateway calls it the Church of St Mary (when it is St Marylebone Parish Church). But I think that it is the same building.
It is a Grade I listed building.
Parish church. 1813-18 by Thomas Hardwick; the chancel remodelled by
Thomas Harris, 1883-84. Portland stone; slate roof. Begun by Hardwick as
a chapel of ease similar to his St. John's, St. John's Wood Road q.v. but
elaborated as parish church with enlarged portico and prominent steeple to
the "west" front on Marylebone Road and diagonally set porches flanking
tie chancel allowing access by a broad flight of steps from Marylebone
High Street to the south (ritual east). Augustan "regular" classical
design church, apart from the tower caryatids, is in the tradition of
Hardwick's master Chambers. Giant hexastyle Corinthian portico with
pediment. Central architraved and consoled doorway and flanking gallery
doorways. Attendant wings with Corinthian antae doubled columns to
returns. Deep entablature and balustraded parapet. The tower rises
behind pediment in 3 stages with square, rusticated, clock stage carrying
Corinthian peristyled belfry stage surmounted by domed cupola with
caryatids separating semicircular arched lights of drum. Semicircular
arched windows to sides with main entablature returned and carried out
over chancel porches. Internally Hardwick's nave has a flat ceiling and
galleries on 3 sides with curved corners, second gallery on west side, all
carried on slender Ionic columns; Thomas Harris's chancel in with
Italianate Renaissance style; numerous early C.19 wall monuments. Nash in
laying out the Regent's Park terraces opened up the fine vista of York
Gate axial to Hardwick's portico.
London Vol II; Nikolaus Pesvner.
Architecture in Britain 1530-1830; Georgian London; John Summerson.
