Vestry And Presbytery

TQ 2880 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER MOUNT STREET W1 69/125 (south side)

No 114 (Vestry and Presbytery) GV II

Vestry hall and Presbytery. 1886-88 by A E Purdie. Dark red machined brick and lavish dark red terracotta dressings; slate roofs. Two main storeys over basement to vestry hall and chapel block facing Mount Street. Three major bays defined by thin projecting piers, each bay containing pairs of mullioned and double transomed leaded casements under flat arches to both main floors; sunk panel aprons, moulded sill bands and string courses. Cornice breaking forward over piers. Over each bay a gabled lucarne with flanking scrolls. West elevation: the 2 storey block is expressed as a single major gabled bay with same details. Its continuation, the Presbytery within the same overall height has 4 storeys and 7 bays. The 4 bays to right with open arcade on ground floor. Mullioned-transomed leaded casements. Moulded string and sill courses and cornice as before with each bay surmounted by a lucarne dormer. Prominent ribbed chimney stacks. Gothicised iron railings to wide basement area and to entrance steps into arcade. Included for group interest as part of the 1880s -90s rebuilding of Mount Street for the Grosvenor Estate.

Listing NGR: TQ2854580621