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Location: St Cyprian, City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
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St Cyprian's Church is an Anglican church in the Marylebone district of London, UK. It is dedicated to Saint Cyprian, a third-century martyr and Bishop of Carthage and is located close to the south-western side of Regent's Park and Baker Street.
History of St Cyprian:
The church was designed by Ninian Comper in a Gothic Revival style and built in 1903. It was built in red brick with stone dressings. The building has a nave, aisles and clerestory, but no tower, and features Perpendicular window tracery and stained glass by Comper. St Cyprian's was designed to reflect Comper's emphasis on the Eucharist and the influence on him of the Oxford Movement, and he said his church was to resemble "a lantern, and the altar is the flame within it".
The interior, also in the Perpendicular style, features a white and gold colour scheme with ornate furnishings, including a finely carved and painted rood screen and a gilded classical font cover. The timber hammerbeam roof features tie beam trusses with panelled tracery spandrels. Comper's stated aim was "to fulfil the ideal of the English Parish Church ... in the last manner of English Architecture"........Wikipedia >>
