After deconsecration in 1977, the church became an antiques market and restaurant and is now a sports centre named the Greenhouse Centre. It stands on a busy street mid-way between Paddington Station and Regent's Park.
The church
Christ Church was one of the first of the Commissioners' churches, which were some six hundred new churches built between the 1820s and 1850s by the Church Building Commission, using £1,500,000 given by Parliament so that the growing populations of the suburbs could be better served by the Established Church.[9]
The north portico
The church is an example of square Georgian neoclassical architecture, covered in pale limestone, with the nave inside built of brick. It has a four-columned Ionicportico at the front, with a blank pediment, and further pairs of pillars on each side. 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.[9] Inside the church is an eight-bay Corinthian arcade, with Corinthian pilasters on the east wall. Clerestory windows sit above an entablature, and the nave has a low arched ceiling with ribs and oval panels. The church also has galleries.[10]
The tower and cupola
Lacking a graveyard, like many other metropolitan churches, Christ Church was provided with a large vault for its burials.[11] In 1887, some alterations were made to the church, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield.[10]
Due to parish reorganization, the church was declared redundant and closed in 1977.[8] The building was sold and converted by Umano architects in the 1980s,[12] becoming first an antique market and restaurant.[13]
The parish of Christ Church, Cosway Street, was created in 1825 by Act of Parliament as one of four new district rectories within the ancient parish of St Marylebone. It was provided with a Rectory called Christ Church House.[8]
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. It was formally opened in December 1892 by the Duke of Fife.[17]
The St John's Wood Chapel
In 1898, the St John's Wood Chapel became a chapel of ease to Christ Church, Marylebone.[18] In 1932, the Rector of Christ Church moved from Christ Church House into St John's House and increasingly the parish appears to have been administered from there.[8]
Oswin Gibbs-Smith, who was appointed as Rector of Christ Church in 1941, was also in charge of the parishes of St Barnabas, Bell Street, and St Stephen, Avenue Road, with St Andrew, Allitsen Road.[8] During the Second World War, by agreement with Gibbs-Smith, the Royal Air Force took over Christ Church School, in Cosway Street, Christ Church House, in Shroton Street, the De Walden Institute, in Charlbert Street, and the St John's Wood Chapel, to provide accommodation for airmen.[19]
In 1945, a scheme for the reorganization of the Marylebone parishes proposed that the parish of Christ Church should be united with Saint Barnabas, Bell Street, while losing St John's Wood Chapel, which would become a new parish church, covering most of the former parish of St Stephen, Avenue Road. This scheme was not legally implemented until 1952, but at the beginning of 1948 Gibbs-Smith resigned and different incumbents were appointed for the parishes of Christ Church with St Barnabas and St Stephen with St John.[8] Gibbs-Smith became Archdeacon of London[20] and was later Dean of Winchester.[21]
In 1971 the parish of Christ Church was united with St Paul, Rossmore Road, to create a parish called Christ Church and St Paul. Both churches were parish churches of this new parish until Christ Church was declared redundant in January 1977. In July 1978 the parish was united with St Mark with St Luke, Marylebone, to be served by a team ministry.[8]
1 2 "Death of Mr. Llewelyn Davies Scholar and Liberal Churchman" (obituary), in The Times, Friday, May 19, 1916, Issue 41171, p. 11, col. B (text at Wikisource)
1 2 The Genealogical Magazine, Volume 3 (1900), p. 368
1 2 The London Gazette, 3 November 1899, p. 1032: "CROWN OFFICE October 30, 1899 The Queen has been pleased, by Letters Patent, to present the Reverend Harry Alsager Sheringham, M.A., to the Rectory of Christ Church, Marylebone, in the county of London and diocese of London, void by the resignation of the Reverend Oswald Pryor Wardell-Yerburgh, the last Incumbent, and in Her Majesty's gift in full right."
1 2 "CHRIST CHURCH", listing at historicengland.org.uk, accessed 20 November 2020
↑ Mrs Basil Holmes, The London Burial Grounds: Notes on their history from the earliest times to the present day (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896), Appendix C, p. 329
↑ Anne Clark Amor, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, a Woman of Some Importance (1983), p. 12: "Saturday's child, she was baptized on 9 June 1858 at Christ Church, Cosway Street, Marylebone. Although registration of birth was already compulsory, Constance's birth was never registered."
↑ "Noted Archbishop Claimed by Death" (obituary) in The Evening Record (Windsor, Ontario), 21 January 1909, p. 1, col. A
↑ Brian Bowers, Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS, 1802–1875 (London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1975), p. 155
↑ Peter Spiller, Cox and Crime: An Examination of Edward William Cox, 1809-1879 (1985), p. 14
↑ Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, The Works of Thomas Carlyle: The life of John Sterling (1898), p. 75: “On the edge of winter, here at home, Sterling was married: at Christchurch, Marylebone, 2d November 1830, say the records. His blooming, kindly and true-hearted Wife had not much money, nor had he as yet any...”
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