St Gabriel's, Warwick Square

St. Gabriel's, Pimlico

Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Traditional Catholic
Website	http://www.stgabrielspimlico.com
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	1958
Architect(s)	Thomas Cundy (Junior)
Style	Gothic
Administration
Diocese	London
Division	Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret)
Clergy
Vicar(s)	The Reverend Owen Higgs MA (Oxon)
Curate(s)	The Reverend Lee Clark BTh (Oxon)

St Gabriel's, Pimlico, is an Anglo-Catholic church in Pimlico. It lies within the Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret) within the Diocese of London. Designed by Thomas Cundy (Junior), it was constructed between 1851-3 as part of Thomas Cubitt's development of the area on behalf of the Marquess of Westminster. It is a Grade II* Listed Building.

History

The church was built between 1851-3 by Thomas Cundy (Junior).^[1] In the period 1840-60, Pimlico was a rapidly expanding residential area and The Marquess of Westminster, the major local landowner, granted £5,000 and the freehold of a plot at the south-western end of Warwick Square for a church. The vestry was added in 1887-8 by James Piers St Aubyn.^[1]

Description

Immediately following on from all this work came a period of magnificent improvements in the chancel, funded in the main by Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton.^[2] A new high altar had been installed, designed by John Francis Bentley, architect of Westminster Cathedral,^[3] and now the whole chancel was lined with alabaster by Powell with Italianate mosaic designs. The floor is of red and white marble squares with solid marble steps.

Lady Chapel

The Lady Chapel was added to the south of the chancel and some of the original reredos (thought to be by George Gilbert Scott) from the original high altar, installed there. Crowning it all was the new East Window by Charles Eamer Kempe depicting Christ in Glory with Saints.^[3]

Notes

1 2 Bradley & Pevsner & p.765.
↑ "CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL - 1357369". Historic England. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
1 2 "CHURCH OF ST GABRIEL - 1357369". Historic England. Retrieved 2016-09-04.

References

Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). London 6: Westminster. The Buildings of England. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300095951.

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Coordinates: 51°29′23″N 0°08′32″W / 51.4897°N 0.142286°W / 51.4897; -0.142286 (St Gabriel's, Pimlico)

Churches in Westminster

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	Savoy Chapel St Anne's, Soho St Clement Danes St George's, Hanover Square St James's Church, Piccadilly St John the Evangelist, Westminster St. Margaret's, Westminster St Martin-in-the-Fields St Marylebone Parish Church St Mary le Strand St Paul's, Covent Garden Westminster Abbey

Anglican daughter churches	All Saints, Margaret Street All Souls, Langham Place Annunciation, Marble Arch Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks Henry VII Chapel Holy Trinity, Marylebone Holy Trinity, South Kensington Queen's Chapel, St James St Augustine's, Kilburn St Cyprian's, Marylebone St Gabriel's, Pimlico St James, Paddington St James the Less, Pimlico St John's Wood Church St Mary, Marylebone St Mary on Paddington Green St Matthew's, Bayswater St Matthew's, Westminster St Paul's, Knightsbridge St Peter, Vere Street St Peter's, Victoria St Saviour's, Pimlico

Other denominations	Church of our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Westminster Crown Court Church, Covent Garden Dormition Cathedral Enon Chapel French Protestant Church of London, Soho Immaculate Conception, Farm Street Notre Dame de France One Mayfair Church Regent Hall, Oxford Street Saint Charles Borromeo church St James's, Spanish Place St John's Wood Road Baptist Church St Patrick's, Soho St Sophia's Cathedral, Bayswater Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Mayfair Ulrika Eleonora West London Methodist Mission West Street Chapel, Westminster Westminster Cathedral Methodist Central Hall Westminster Chapel, Victoria

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