Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 January 1973. Church, presbytery.
Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery
- WRENN ID
- distant-loggia-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 January 1973
- Type
- Church, presbytery
- Address
- Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery, 1, Maiden Lane Wc2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 807
- Coordinates
- 51.5109, -0.12249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery is a church built between 1873 and 1874 by Frederick Hyde Pownall. It is constructed of stock brick with stone dressings and features slate roofs, designed in the Early English style. The building has a rectangular plan with a ritual west narthex at the north end facing the street, topped by a massive square tower. The upper stage of the tower includes clasping buttresses and a corbel table, with three tall stone-dressed lights featuring gabled arches on colonettes. A short pyramidal slate spire with small lucarnes crowns the tower.
The church entrance is a moulded and chamfered pointed arch that opens into a vaulted passage, located in the ground floor of the adjoining presbytery on the left. The presbytery itself has a plain design, spanning four storeys and four windows wide. It features flat stone heads above narrow sash windows set beneath relieving arches, with the third-floor windows designed as stone gabled half dormers.
Inside the church, there is a four-bay nave beyond the narthex, with aisles and a two-bay sanctuary flanked by chapels. The interior includes lancet lights and plate tracery, along with an open arched collar-braced king post timber roof. The brick walls and stone dressings have been painted. Notable features include an elaborate reredos and altar made of Caen stone by Earp, as well as a medieval octagonal stone font that reflects the Early English style.
Local climate
Corpus Christi Church and Presbytery sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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