Church of All Souls, Langham Place London, England
Listed Building Data
Church of All Souls, Langham Place has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1221802
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 10 September 1954
- Name
- CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, LANGHAM PLACE
- Location
- CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, LANGHAM PLACE, LANGHAM PLACE W1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 28939 81548
- Easting
- 528938.5780
- Northing
- 181548.1000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER LANGHAM PLACE, Wl 45/121 Church of All Souls, 10.9.54 Langham Place G.V. I Church. 1822-24 by John Nash, restored after war damage. Bath stone; hipped slate roof to church proper. Rectangular body with the south west end circular portico, tower and peristyle encircled spire as the distinguishing feature of this neoclassical hybrid design, ingeniously both closing the vista and acting as the pivotal focus for the change in direction of Nash's Via Triumphalis between Langham Place and Portland Place. The circular portico raised on a flight of steps has giant Ionic columns carrying entablature and balustraded parapet; the circular tower with architraved and corniced entrance at its foot rises above the portico to the open Corinthian columned peristyle screening the base of the 12-sided stone spire. The body of the church (extending off the side lines to the north east) is in plain ashlar on 2 storeys with 6-window sides, square headed in lower register and semicircular arched above; plinth, plat band and sill band, crowning cornice and blocking course. Interior has gallery on chamfered piers,above which rise Corinthian columns carrying flat ceiling with enriched cove; circular vestibule in base of tower. Copy of bust of Nash by Behnes in portico. John Nash; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ2893681544
