St James’s, Clerkenwell
St James’s, Clerkenwell traces its origins to a Benedictine nunnery that was founded in about 1100. At the Dissolution the site of the nunnery was granted to the Duke of...
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All Souls, Langham Place
All Souls, Langham Place, was built by John Nash on the ceremonial route that he planned from Carlton House to Regent's Park via Regent Street and Park Square. It was to...
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St Paul’s, Mill Hill
St Paul's, Mill Hill, was founded by William Wilberforce, anti-slavery movement leader and resident of Mill Hill. Patrick was asked to help solve a problem of flaking paint...
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St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park
Like most of Bedford Park, the architecture of the church of St Michael and All Angels is mainly in the Queen Anne revival style. The church was designed by Richard Norman...
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St. John’s, Hyde Park
The development of the “Paddington Estate” in the early years of the nineteenth century led to the creation of a new parish. In 1826 the Reverend Dr Crane applied to the...
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All Saints, Margaret Street
All Saints, Margaret Street is an Anglican church in London built in the High Victorian Gothic style by the architect William Butterfield and completed in 1859. All Saints...
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St George-in-the-East, Stepney
St George in the East was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. The foundations were laid in 1714, the building roofed in 1717 and the church was finally dedicated in 1729. The...
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St John’s, Smith Square
St John's, Smith Square, was designed by Thomas Archer and completed in 1728. It is regarded as one of the finest works of English Baroque architecture, and features four...
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Ealing Abbey
The Benedictine monastery at Ealing, in west London, was founded in 1897 from Downside Abbey. The original church was designed by the Scottish architect Frederick Arthur...
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Hermon Chapel, Oswestry
The Hermon Welsh Independent Chapel was designed by the Revd. Thomas Thomas and built in 1862-63. In style it has a classical, three bay Tuscan pilastered facade under...
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St John the Baptist, Hoxton
By 1801, the population of the whole of Shoreditch (of which Hoxton was a part) had grown to 34,766, doubled to 68,564 by 1831 and in 1861 was 129,364. As the population grew...
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St Saviour’s, Hampstead
In the mid-19th Century, London was spreading from the central areas to the north-west, and the Chalcot Estate, part of the endowment bestowed on Eton College by King Henry...
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St George’s, Bloomsbury
St George's Bloomsbury is the sixth and final London church designed by the leading architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor. It was one of the "Fifty New...
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St Peter’s Church, Petersham
There seems to have been a church on this site since Saxon times as the 1086 Domesday Survey entry for Petersham suggests that the church there then had been restored. In...
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The Royal Mausoleum
Queen Victoria's love for her husband Prince Albert is well known and when he died on 14th December 1861, of typhoid, she was devastated. Within four days she had ordered the...
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