Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone

51°31′27″N 0°8′37″W / 51.52417°N 0.14361°W / 51.52417; -0.14361

Church in London , United Kingdom
Former Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone
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Location1 Marylebone Road, Marylebone, Westminster, London NW1 4AQ
CountryUnited Kingdom
DenominationChurch of England
Architecture
Architect(s)John Soane
Years built1828
The open air pulpit is dedicated to William Cadman, rector from 1858 to 1891

Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone, Westminster, London, is a Grade I listed former Anglican church, built in 1828 and designed by John Soane. In 1818 Parliament passed an act setting aside one million pounds to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon. This is one of the so-called "Waterloo churches" that were built with the money. The building has an entrance off-set with four large Ionic columns. There is a lantern steeple, similar to St Pancras New Church, which is also on Euston Road to the east.

George Saxby Penfold was appointed as the first Rector, having previously taken on much the same task as the first Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone.[1] The first burial took place in the vault of the church in 1829, and the last was that of Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller in 1853.[2] It has an external pulpit facing onto Marylebone Road, erected in memory of the Revd. William Cadman MA (1815-1891), who was rector of the parish from 1859 - 1891, renowned for his sonorous voice and preaching[3]

By the 1930s, the use of the church had declined, and from 1936 it was used as a book warehouse by the newly founded Penguin Books. A children's slide was used to deliver books from the street into the large crypt. In 1937 Penguin moved out to Harmondsworth, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), an Anglican missionary organisation, moved in. It was their headquarters until 2006, when they relocated to Tufton Street, Westminster (they have since moved again to Pimlico). In 2018 the church became the location of the world's first wedding department store, The Wedding Gallery, based on the ground floor and basement level.[4] The first floor is used as an events space operated by One Events and known as "One Marylebone".

The former church stands on a traffic island by itself, bounded by Marylebone Road at the front, and Albany Street and Osnaburgh Street on either side; the street at the rear north side is Osnaburgh Terrace.

References

  1. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Penfold, George Saxby" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  2. ^ Burials in Trinity Church, in the Parish of St Marylebone (1829–1853), Mary Poyyer, 15 Sept. 1829, Jonathan Wathen Waller Bart., ancestry.co.uk, accessed 10 December 2020 (subscription required)
  3. ^ "London Remembers". Memorial: William Cadman. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  4. ^ 'Former London church becomes one-stop wedding shop', The Guardian, 13 October, 2017

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