St Mary's Church (London)

United Kingdom / England / London / A4200 Eversholt Street
 Gothic revival (architecture), 1820s construction, Grade II Listed (UK), anglican church

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The Diocese of London
On Thursday 11 May, 2006 St Mary's Church in Eversholt Street, by Euston Station celebrated its 180th birthday. The Church community which has been the Cabbies Church, the centre of the Slum Clearance movement with Fr Basil Jellicoe, the Church for British Rail, a part of the creation of the Pearly Kings and Queens and has offered thousands of baptisms, weddings and funerals to the people of Somers Town and Camden was originally consecrated on 11 May 1826.

St Mary's Church was designed by H and HW Inwood. Built 1824-7 by IT Seabrook. Apse added 1888 by Ewan Christian, who also removed side galleries. West gallery removed and interior decorated 1890. Grey brick with stone dressings. 7 bays with aisles in thin Gothic style. Symmetrical west front with central buttressed tower having pinnacles at angles and Y-tracery louvred belfry; pointed arch main entrance. Tower flanked by 2 bays, outer bays having pointed arch entrances the same dimensions as the main entrance flanked by buttress and terminating in pinnacles above the cornice above which sits a parapet. Interior has a vaulted roof on cast-iron clustered columns.
Listed building.

Somers Town
Camden, London NW1 1BN
Tel. 020 7267 1750, 020 7424 0724
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Coordinates:   51°31'52"N   -0°8'5"E
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