Church of the Annunciation

The Church is near Bryanston Square and Montagu Square in the neoclassical Portman Estate area of London, which was developed by Henry William Portman in the 18th century. A chapel of ease called the Quebec Chapel was founded on the present site in 1787 to commemorate the Battle of Quebec. It is thought that this chapel was built on the site of the riding school of the Portman Barracks. By the early 20th century the chapel had fallen into disrepair and it was demolished in 1911. Among the priests-in-charge of the Quebec Chapel was the theologian and hymnodist, Henry Alford, who wrote the hymn "Come, ye thankful people, come". The Annunciation Church has always been closely associated with…

The present church was designed by the English architect Sir Walter Tapper and built in 1912–1913. Tapper was a pupil of George Frederick Bodley, a leading designer of Mediæval revival architecture. It is a tall red brick church designed in the Late Gothic Revival (or Edwardian Gothic) style. It features stone dressings and buttresses and a gabled bell tower. The single bell was cast in 1913 by John Warner & Sons of Spitalfields. Nikolaus Pevsner referred to the church in his Buildings of England as "a fragment of a major medieval church". The interior has a rood screen with a high triumphal crucifix over an arch that is thought to have been crafted by Robert Bridgeman of Lichfield to…