[37217] London - All Saints, Margaret Street : Looking East

All Saints, Margaret Street, London W1, 1849-59.

By William Butterfield (1814-1900).

Grade l listed.

Looking East.

 

To describe a church as an orgasm is bound to offend someone; yet this building can only be understood in terms of compelling, overwhelming passion. Here is the force of Wuthering Heights translated into dusky red and black bricks and put down in a mundane Marylebone street to rivet you, pluck you into the courtyard with its harsh welcoming wings and quivering steeple. Ian Nairn - Nairn's London p77.

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