Church of St Cyprian, Clarence Gate London, England
Listed Building Data
Church of St Cyprian, Clarence Gate has been designated a Grade II* 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1237476
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 10 September 1954
- Name
- CHURCH OF ST CYPRIAN, CLARENCE GATE
- Location
- CHURCH OF ST CYPRIAN, CLARENCE GATE, GLENTWORTH STREET NW1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 27750 82209
- Easting
- 527750.0000
- Northing
- 182209.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
TQ 2782 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER GLENTWORTH STREET, NWl 34/26 10.9.54 Church of St Cyprian, Clarence Gate G.V. II* Church. 1901-03 by Ninian Comper. (Bucknall and Comper.) Red brick and stone dressings,slate roof. Plain towerless hall church exterior with nave, aisles and clerestory, 7 bays long with buttresses and windows with good perpendicular tracery. Very fine perpendicular interior in Comper's early manner setting out "to fulfil the ideal of the English Parish Church ... in the last manner of English Architecture". White and gold colour scheme with finely detailed furnishings. Lofty, clustered shaft piers to arcade run the full length carrying clerestory. Open timber roof of combined hammer beam - tie beam trusses with panelled tracery spandrels. Large open work delicately carved rood screen and polychromed rood. No pews. Tall gilt carved classical font cover introducing Comper's "Unity by Inclusion" principle; stained glass by Comper; etc.
Listing NGR: TQ2775082209
