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St marys church, Nov 2017 #103980980
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St Mary`s, Bryanston Square was built as one of the Commissioners` churches in 1823ââ¬â1824 and was designed by Robert Smirke to seal the vista from the lower end of Bryanston Square. It is a brick building, with a stone portico and tower and listed grade I. The church cost ã19,955 equivalent to ã1,610,000 in 2016, Towards which the Church Building Commission gave a grant of ã14,955. Charles John Gardiner, 1st Earl of Blessington, and Margaret Farmer were married in the church on 16 February 1818. Thomas Frognall Dibdin c.1823 ââ¬â 1847 was a rector, and Samuel Augustus Barnett was introduced to his future wife Henrietta during his curacy there 1867ââ¬â8. info via wiki.