Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone
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| location = 1 Marylebone Road, Marylebone, Westminster, London NW1 4AQ
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File:External pulpit, former Holy Trinity Church - geograph.org.uk - 1036680.jpg, rector from 1858 to 1891]]
Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone, Westminster, London, is a Grade I listed former Anglican church, built in 1828 and designed by John Soane. In 1818 Parliament passed an act setting aside one million pounds to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon. This is one of the so-called "Waterloo churches" that were built with the money. The building has an entrance off-set with four large Ionic columns. There is a lantern steeple, similar to St Pancras New Church, which is also on Euston Road to the east.
George Saxby Penfold was appointed as the first Rector, having previously taken on much the same task as the first Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone.{{alox2|title=Penfold, George Saxby}}
The first burial took place in the vault of the church in 1829, and the last was that of Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller in 1853.Burials in Trinity Church, in the Parish of St Marylebone (1829–1853), [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1559/images/31280_194720-00117 Mary Poyyer, 15 Sept. 1829], [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/1559/images/31280_194720-00182 Jonathan Wathen Waller Bart.], ancestry.co.uk, accessed 10 December 2020 {{subscription required}} It has an external pulpit facing onto Marylebone Road, erected in memory of the Revd. William Cadman MA (1815-1891), who was rector of the parish from 1859 - 1891, renowned for his sonorous voice and preaching{{cite web |last1=|title=London Remembers |url=https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/william-cadman |website=Memorial: William Cadman |access-date=5 November 2022}}
By the 1930s, the use of the church had declined, and from 1936 it was used as a book warehouse by the newly founded Penguin Books. A children's slide was used to deliver books from the street into the large crypt. In 1937 Penguin moved out to Harmondsworth, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), an Anglican missionary organisation, moved in. It was their headquarters until 2006, when they relocated to Tufton Street, Westminster (they have since moved again to Pimlico). In 2018 the church became the location of the world's first wedding department store, The Wedding Gallery, based on the ground floor and basement level.'[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/13/former-london-church-becomes-a-one-stop-wedding-shop Former London church becomes one-stop wedding shop]', The Guardian, 13 October, 2017 The first floor is used as an events space operated by One Events and known as "One Marylebone".
The former church stands on a traffic island by itself, bounded by Marylebone Road at the front, and Albany Street and Osnaburgh Street on either side; the street at the rear north side is Osnaburgh Terrace.
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Category:Grade I listed churches in the City of Westminster
Category:Religious organizations established in 1828
Category:Churches completed in 1828
Category:19th-century Church of England church buildings
Category:Former churches in the City of Westminster
Category:Former Church of England church buildings
Category:1828 establishments in England
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