Description

TQ 2782 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST JOHN'S WOOD ROAD,
23/5 NW8
Church of St John the
Baptist (St John's Wood
10.9.54 Chapel)
G.V. II*
Church. 1813-14 by Thomas Hardwick built as chapel of ease for the developing
Portman and Eyre Estates in this area. Portland stone front and stone dressed
stock brick sides; leaded roof. Simple rectangle with narrower, lower, shallow
chancel. Chaste neo-classical chapel design dressed with tetrastyle portico
surmounted by columned cupola-bellcote.2 storeys (for galleries). 5 bay south
(ritual west) front. Central corniced doorway flanked by niches; outer bays
with plain square headed doorways (to gallery stairs) and semicircular arches.
1st floor windows recessed for 1 order. Plinths, sill band crowning cornice and
parapet. The centre screened by Ionic giant portico with entablature and
pediment containing clock face. The small stone domed cupola rises from octagonal
case and with detached pairs of Doric columns carrying breaks in the
entablature on the diagonals. Elegant original interior with Tuscan columns
carrying gallery above which "Tower of the Winds" columns rise to slightly
curved ceiling; white painted box pews and good collection of early C19 Grecian
wall monuments; etc. St John's was designed at the same time as Hardwick's
initial chapel of ease scheme at St Mary's, Marylebone Road q.v. which it
closely resembled before the elaboration of the latter's final form.

Listing NGR: TQ2714382886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St John's Wood Church at Wikipedia
• St John's Wood Church official website
• Wikidata Q16900488

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)