Marsham Street is a street in the
City of Westminster
The City of Westminster is a city and borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of central Greater London, including most of the West En ...
in
London
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,
England
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. It is approximately one mile in length and runs south from Great Peter Street near
Victoria Street and
Parliament Square.
Description
Marsham Street bisects
Horseferry Road
Horseferry Road is a street in the City of Westminster in central London running between Millbank and Greycoat Place. It is perhaps best known as the site of City of Westminster Magistrates' Court (which until 2006 was called Horseferry Road ...
and runs from the Tate Foundation on John Islip Street to Great Smith Street. Like many streets in the area, it has long been the location for offices of the
Government of the United Kingdom
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, and is currently home to the
Home Office, the
Department for Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved. The ...
and the
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), formerly the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for housing, communities, local government i ...
.
Along with Great Smith Street to the north and John Islip Street to the south, it is designated the B326 in the
Great Britain Road Numbering Scheme
The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain.
Each road is given a single letter (which represents the road's category) and a subsequent number (between 1 and 4 digits). ...
.
Romney House (47 Marsham Street) was built in the 1930s by the Austro British architect
Michael Rosenauer. The large red brick church (9–23 Marsham Street) was designed by
Sir Herbert Baker
Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He ...
and
A. T. Scott in 1928 for
Christian Scientists. In the 1990s, it became the Emmanuel Centre (a conference centre) and the Emmanuel Evangelical Church.
Marsham Street has been subject to a number of high-end residential developments formed out of what used to be
Westminster Hospital
Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded.
In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 th ...
and associated former nursing accommodation. These developments were completed between 2005 and 2007.
References
Streets in the City of Westminster
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