Church Of St Cyprian, Clarence Gate

The Church of St Cyprian in Clarence Gate, City of Westminster, is a church built between 1901 and 1903, designed by Ninian Comper, in collaboration with Bucknall. The church is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, and has a slate roof.

The exterior is of a hall church design, without a tower, comprising a nave, aisles, and clerestory, extending seven bays and featuring buttresses and windows with good perpendicular tracery. The interior is exceptionally fine, reflecting Comper’s early style and his ambition “to fulfil the ideal of the English Parish Church… in the last manner of English Architecture.” The interior has a white and gold colour scheme with highly detailed furnishings. It features lofty clustered shaft piers to the arcade, extending the full length and supporting the clerestory. The roof is an open timber structure incorporating hammer beam and tie beam trusses with panelled tracery spandrels. Other notable features include a large, openwork, delicately carved rood screen with a polychromed rood. There are no pews. A tall, gilt, carved, classical font cover introduces Comper's "Unity by Inclusion" principle, and the church contains stained glass designed by Comper.