St Mary's Church, Charing Cross Road, 1869–74 (drawing)

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, from 1851. The building was formerly the site of an ancient church, called 'The Greek Church', and St Mary's was never fully built, with only the chancel and the north aisle being completed. The structure was demolished in the 1930s.

Description

St Mary's Church, Charing Cross Road, 1869–74 (floorplan)

The parish was originally part of the parish of

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, and became a separate parish in its own right in 1854, within the Diocese of London. In 1900,

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formed and trained the choir there and played the organ. In 1932, St Mary's was united with St Anne's, and by the end of 1934 the church had been demolished. The 17th-century stone bearing the

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inscription which recorded the construction of the old nave was presented to the

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cathedral of Aghia Sophia, Moscow Road, Bayswater where it was re-erected. The cornerstone of 1900 was similarly set up in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Kenton, Middlesex, which was built with the aid of funds from the sale of the site. The sale was concluded in March 1935, when the site was bought by the

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to form part of the site of a new building to house

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References

*'The Greek Church (Later St. Mary's, Crown Street) and St. Martin's Almhouses', Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 278–87.

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