Christ Church, Marylebone

[9] The church is an example of square Georgian neoclassical architecture, covered in pale limestone, with the nave inside built of brick.

A square tower rises above the church, with clock faces and Corinthian pillars, above which is an octagonal cupola with a roof shaped like a bell.

Clerestory windows sit above an entablature, and the nave has a low arched ceiling with ribs and oval panels.

[13] In 2014, the church was bought by Greenhouse Sports, a youth charity, with the help of Michael Sherwood, a former banker.

[2] In 1892, shortly after the arrival of Oswald Wardell-Yerburgh as Rector, a new Christ Church House was built in Shroton Street, in polychromatic brick, and provided parish rooms and a Boys’ Club in the basement.

[8] Constance Lloyd, who later became an author and the wife of Oscar Wilde, was baptized at Christ Church on 9 June 1858.

[22] In 1850, aged only fifteen, Arthur Sweatman, later Archbishop of Toronto, began to teach in the Sunday school of Christ Church, Marylebone.

[24] John Percy Groves, a military author, married Harriet Augusta Raines at Christ Church, Marylebone, on 11 March 1873.

The north portico
The tower and cupola
The St John's Wood Chapel
Robert Walpole
Constance Lloyd