Church Of St Paul Church Of St Paul Covent Garden

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER BEDFORD STREET, WC2 72/32 Church of St Paul 24.2.58 Covent Garden

G.V. I

Parish church. 1631-38 by Inigo Jones, damaged by fire in 1795 and restored by Thomas Hardwick, brick facings and alterations in 1870s by Henry Clutton. Red brick and stone, slate roof, "The handsomest barn in England". Plain rectangular hall with no internal subdivision. Monumental east portico to the Piazza with deeply overhanging bracketed eaves to the pedimental gable end, carried on 2 square outer piers and 2 inner giant Tuscan columns with marked entasis, within a large architraved false doorway with cornice on consoles (originally the plan was for a west altar). The side elevations have architraved round headed windows, the west front brick faced with central doorway and flanking vestry wings, deep eaved gable. Inside these is a Doric columned west organ gallery and ceiling with large richly ornamented panels; altar with flanking colonnades, the columns, formerly part of side galleries removed by Butterfield in 1872; finely carved early C.19 pulpit etc.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI. Inigo Jones; Sir John Summerson.

Listing NGR: TQ3030180846