Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street,
Originally a proprietary (i.e. private) chapel in Mayfair. The architect is probably Benjamin Timbrell and it was built 1730-31. The chancel was seperated off with a screen to form a lady chapel in 1912-13
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Immaculate Conception, Farm Street (Roman Catholic)
A large Roman Catholic church in Mayfair, it is the Jesuit’s English headquarters. It was built by J.J. Scoles 1844-49. Outer aisles were added in 1876-78 by Henry Clutton and 1898-1903 W.H. Romaine-Walker.
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Savoy Chapel
Built as part of the Hospital of St John between 1510-16. It is down a side turning between The Strand and the Thames. The bell turret was added by Sir Robert Smirke in 1820-21 and the whole was restored by Sydney Smirke 1864-65.
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St Mary le Strand
On an island in The Strand, the church was designed by James Gibbs and built 1714-17.
St Peter, Vere Street
Behind Debenhams in Oxford Street. It was an estate chapel and is now the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. The architect was James Gibbs and it was built 1721-24. The interior is now bare but it still has William Morris glass designed by Burne-Jones in the east window which dates from 1881.
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St Michael, Paternoster Royal, City of London
By Christopher Wren 1685-94.Restored 1966-68 as the Mission to Seamen. The glass is by John Hayward from 1968
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St Peter, Cornhill, City of London
1677-84 by Christopher Wren, on a tight site making exterior photography rather difficult. The church is now used by St Helen’s Bishopsgate as a study centre.
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St James the Less, Pimlico
G.E. Street’s first London church (1860-61), south of Victoria Station and surrounded by the Churchill Gardens estate. The interior features much notched brickwork, Clayton & Bell glass, a highly decorated chancel and a mosaic replacing a fresco by G.F. Watts over the chancel arch. The church is now run by an evangelical plant from Chester Square (note the change in altar furnishings!). There has been some restoration of the pulpit and screen, with plans for the ceiling too. The first gallery is from November 2025, the second from 2014.
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St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
This is one of John Loughborough Pearson’s major large brick-built churches and dates from 1878-87. There are inner and outer aisles, together with an apsed Lady Chapel. The south transept was meant to be the base of a large tower that has never been completed. Although there has been considerable structural work done in 2016-2017, serous subsidence means that the south side of the nave has to be propped by large wooden buttresses. It was damaged in WW2 and restored by Caroe and Partners in 1946-51. Much of the glass by Clayton and Bell was lost at that time. Some has been replaced by 1950s windows by Francis Spear. Some older glass by Kempe and Comper survives.
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St Augustine, Queens Gate, South Kensington
One of William Butterfield’s classic high Victorian designs. Built 1870-77, the striking interior decoration was largely reinstated in 1975, having been whitwashed over. The huge reredos is by Martin Travers from 1928 as are the Stations of the Cross.
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London Churches in photographs 