Swedish Church

TQ 2781 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HARCOURT STREET, W1 42/4 (north-east side) Swedish Church. GV II Church flanked by subsidiary wings. 1910 foundation stone. By Wigglesworth and A H Hagg. Ashlar faced. Welsh slate roofs, copper fleche to west end of nave. Eclectic Arts and Crafts Gothic to church, Jacobean domestic to side wings. Church at 1st floor level flanked by offices. 2-bay nave with single bay lower chancel. To Harcourt Street: gabled west wall of church with projecting porch, flanked by lower adjoining wings of 3 storeys with dormers and 3 bays. West wall of church: gabled porch with shafted pointed arch flanked by wide embattled pilaster buttresses. Inscription plaque with foundation date to left of porch. Above porch a square-headed window with trefoil lights, the Swedish Royal Arms and a stepped group of tall pointed windows, the central one of 2 trefoiled lights with quatrefoil over. Wings: segment-arched entrances flanking west end of church. Mullion and transom windows flush with wall with leaded lights. Ground floor windows under segmental arches. Canted oriels to centre bays rising through 1st and 2nd floors with cornices and parapets. Ornamental lead guttering and down pipes. Interior of church: nave has timber west gallery/organ loft with blind tracery. 2-light trefoiled windows with quatrefoils in heads. Barrel vault with moulded decoration. Tall, continuously moulded chancel arch. Single-light trefoiled windows and rose window to east. Fittings include pulpit and panelling to chancel with open-pedimented reredos with Composite columns.

Listing NGR: TQ2745081715