Qualla: Fitzrovia Chapel https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/fitzrovia-chapel-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Fitzrovia Chapel https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel Fitzrovia Chapel: Introduction https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel/ Photo credit dozymoo from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Middlesex Hospital stood on this site for nearly two centuries. Its chapel was built in 1891 and 1892, designed by John Loughborough Pearson in the Italian Gothic style, with a rib-vaulted ceiling and surfaces decorated in polychrome marble and mosaic. When the hospital was rebuilt between 1929 and 1935, the work was done around the chapel rather than through it. When the hospital closed and was demolished between 2008 and 2015, the chapel was preserved again while everything else came down. It stood alone in the rubble for years, a Grade II* listed building surrounded by hoardings, until the residential development of Fitzroy Place was built around it. The chapel survived every institution that had contained it.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/fitzrovia-chapel-wp/gcpv-fitzrovia-chapel-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fitzrovia Chapel: Pearson's Interior https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel/ Photo credit The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0. John Loughborough Pearson was one of the great Victorian church architects, responsible for Truro Cathedral and Queensborough Terrace. The Middlesex Hospital Chapel, built in the last years of his life, shows his mastery in miniature: a rib-vaulted ceiling of unusual elegance, su...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/fitzrovia-chapel-wp/gcpv-fitzrovia-chapel-pearsons-interior.mp3 0:06 2 full Fitzrovia Chapel: The First AIDS Ward https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel/ Photo credit AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Middlesex Hospital held a place in the history of the AIDS crisis. The Broderip Ward, opened in 1987, was the first dedicated AIDS ward in London. Diana, Princess of Wales, opened the ward, and photographer Gideon Mendel chronicled the lives of patients there in 1993. When th...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/fitzrovia-chapel-wp/gcpv-fitzrovia-chapel-the-first-aids-ward.mp3 0:06 3 full Fitzrovia Chapel: A Venue in Unlikely Surroundings https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel/ Photo credit AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0. Since the hospital's closure, the Fitzrovia Chapel has functioned as an arts venue in a residential development in the heart of Fitzrovia. Grayson Perry's alter ego Claire has been photographed here. Katie Melua has recorded here. Lee Miller's wartime photographs of nurses across...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/fitzrovia-chapel-wp/gcpv-fitzrovia-chapel-a-venue-in-unlikely-surroundings.mp3 0:06 4 full Fitzrovia Chapel: Gothic in the West End https://qualla.com/fitzrovia-chapel/ Photo credit MumphingSquirrel, CC BY-SA 4.0. The chapel's address — Pearson Square, in the centre of the Fitzroy Place development — gives it a strange contemporary context. The residential buildings that surround it are new; the streets beyond are Fitzrovia's usual mix of Georgian terraces, media offices, and restaurants. ...

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