Corpus Christi Church And Presbytery

TQ 3080 NW 72/87

CITY OF WESTMINSTER, MAIDEN LANE, WC2 No 1 (Presbytery) and Corpus Christi Church

15.1.73

II

Church with presbytery. 1873-74 by Frederick Hyde Pownall. Stock brick with stone dressings, slate roofs. Early English style. Rectangular plan with ritual west narthex at north end to street where it is surmounted by a massive square tower, its upper stage with clasping buttresses and corbel table, 3 tall lights stone dressed with gabled arches on colonettes; short pyramidal slate spire with small lucarnes. The church entrance, a moulded and chamfered pointed arch opening to a vaulted passage, is set in the ground floor of the adjoining presbytery to left. This has a 4 storey, 4 window wide front of plain design. Flat stone heads to narrow sash windows beneath relieving arches. 3rd floor windows as stone gabled half dormers. Church interior has 4 bay nave beyond narthex, with aisles and 2 bay sanctuary with flanking chapels. Lancet lights and plate tracery. Open arched collar braced king post timber roof. Brick walls and stone dressings have been painted. Elaborate reredos and altar of Caen stone by Earp. Medieval octagonal stone font, Early English in style.

Survey of London; Vol. XXXVI.

Listing NGR: TQ3038180771