Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch

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Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch
Style
Gothic Revival
Years built1911
Administration
DioceseLondon
ArchdeaconryCharing Cross
DeaneryWestminster Marylebone
ParishSt Marylebone Annunciation Bryanston Street
Clergy
Vicar(s)The Reverend Dr Lincoln Harvey

The Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch, is a Church of England parish church in the Marble Arch district of London, England. It is dedicated to the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is a Gothic revival building designed by Sir Walter Tapper and built in 1912–1913. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Worship at the Annunciation is

Anglo-Catholic and is supported by a tradition of choral singing. The church is closely linked to a local primary school, Hampden Gurney School.[1]

History

The Church is near

Henry William Portman in the 18th century.[2]

A chapel of ease called the Quebec Chapel was founded on the present site in 1787 to commemorate the Battle of Quebec. It is thought that this chapel was built on the site of the riding school of the Portman Barracks. By the early 20th century the chapel had fallen into disrepair and it was demolished in 1911.[3]

Among the priests-in-charge of the Quebec Chapel was the theologian and hymnodist,

Come, ye thankful people, come".[4][5]

The Annunciation Church has always been closely associated with the

Baptists and other Non-Conformist churches, organisations which, in their opinion, did "not accept the traditional Faith of the Church". In a signed letter, they expressed the concern that "the participation of the Church of England may give the additional impression that Roman Catholics are the only religious body which defend the full Catholic Faith." The poet John Betjeman was among the signatories; although he admitted to T. S. Eliot (a fellow Anglo-Catholic and a churchwarden of St Stephen's, Gloucester Road) that he found the tone of the protest "somewhat extreme", he nevertheless declared "I have nailed my colours to the mast and cannot let down my co-signatories."[7] Rose Macaulay, a novelist, also commented on the protest at the Annunciation, expressing dismay at opposition to the rally.[8]

Architecture

Robert Bridgeman's triumphal cross dominates the nave

The present church was designed by the English architect Sir Walter Tapper and built in 1912–1913. Tapper was a pupil of George Frederick Bodley, a leading designer of Mediæval revival architecture. It is a tall red brick church designed in the Late Gothic Revival (or Edwardian Gothic) style. It features stone dressings and buttresses and a gabled bell tower.[9] The single bell was cast in 1913 by John Warner & Sons of Spitalfields.

Nikolaus Pevsner referred to the church in his Buildings of England as "a fragment of a major medieval church".[citation needed]

The interior has a

Robert Bridgeman of Lichfield to designs by Tapper. The high altar reredos was designed by Tapper and made by Jack Bewsey
who also designed most of the stained glass.

Around the nave are plaster cast

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin and originally hung above the high altar of St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham
.

The organ was built in 1915 by Sir Frederick Rothwell with a case also designed by Tapper. The organ underwent restoration by Bishop & Son organ builders in 1989.[10]

Parish war memorial on the corner of Bryanston and Old Quebec streets

References

  1. ^ "Worship". The Annunciation Marble Arch. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Local Area". The Annunciation Marble Arch. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  3. ^ "History". The Annunciation Marble Arch. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  4. ISBN 9780766154292
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  5. ^ "Alford, Henry". Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
  6. ISBN 1564599973
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  7. ISBN 9781446493052
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  8. ISBN 9781448203635
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  9. ^ Historic England. "Church of the Annunciation (Grade II*) (1066358)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
  10. ^ "The Organ". The Annunciation Marble Arch. Retrieved 12 September 2012.

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