St Peter's CoE Primary School

St. Peter's Church 

One of my favourite times in school is visiting the church, especially for our Harvest and Christmas services - Y5 Pupil 2022

St. Peter's Church was the first to be designed by Sir John Soane, and was built between 1823-25 in the wave of Anglican church building that followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

It resembles two other churches by the same architect – in particular Holy Trinity, Marylebone Road – in its use of London Stock brickwork with stone dressings, and carries the Soane hallmark of tall arched windows set in recesses. The depressed Ionic front with cornice sand balustrade over avoids the architectural problems encountered when a pediment is used.

The east end was altered in 1888, and major reconstruction was carried out in 1953 following wartime bomb damage. The interior was re-ordered in 1982.

In architectural terms, this church is superior to most of the other ‘Commissioner’s Churches’, both in its severe classical exterior treatment and in its light, almost modern, feel which was Soane’s speciality.

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Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Ephesians 2: 20-22