Swedish Church

The Swedish Church, located on Harcourt Street in the City of Westminster, was built in 1910 and designed by Wigglesworth and A H Hagg. The church features an ashlar stone facade and is topped with Welsh slate roofs, including a copper fleche at the west end of the nave. The architectural style is an eclectic mix of Arts and Crafts Gothic for the church and Jacobean domestic style for the side wings.

The church is positioned at first floor level and is flanked by offices. It has a two-bay nave and a single bay lower chancel. The west wall facing Harcourt Street features a gabled design with a projecting porch, flanked by lower adjoining wings that rise three stories and include dormers and three bays. The gabled porch has a pointed arch supported by wide embattled pilaster buttresses, with an inscription plaque indicating the foundation date to the left. Above the porch is a square-headed window with trefoil lights, the Swedish Royal Arms, and a stepped arrangement of tall pointed windows, with the central window featuring two trefoiled lights and a quatrefoil above.

The wings have segment-arched entrances at the west end of the church, with mullion and transom windows that are flush with the wall and fitted with leaded lights. The ground floor windows are set under segmental arches, and the central bays feature canted oriels that rise through the first and second floors, adorned with cornices and parapets. The building also includes ornamental lead guttering and downpipes.

Inside the church, the nave contains a timber west gallery or organ loft with blind tracery, and two-light trefoiled windows with quatrefoils in their heads. The barrel vault is decorated with moulded details, and there is a tall, continuously moulded chancel arch. The east end features single-light trefoiled windows and a rose window. Notable fittings include a pulpit and panelling in the chancel, which is complemented by an open-pedimented reredos supported by Composite columns.