3-086-342 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Trinity Church House, Marylebone, [Westminster, London,] 1898. 'Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, has been for a considerable time in urgent need of a parish hall, capable of accommodating a large number of persons, with rooms for evening classes, a gymnasium, and clergy-house. For the past two years a committee has been actively engaged in furthering this object, and subscriptions were procured to the extent of £6000. The Dowager Lady Howard de Walden generously offered a sum of £3000 if a similar amount could be raised. Last year this was done, her Ladyship's subscription was paid, and building operations were begun. The new buildings, opened on May 19 by the Bishop of London, contain a lofty hall, which occupies the greater part of the site, and is capable of accommodating six hundred persons. In the cheerfully lighted basement, a complete gymnasium will be fitted up, while the remainder of the block, together with two existing houses which are being adapted, will be utilised for class-rooms, three sets of apartments for assistant clergy, and caretaker's quarters. The total cost of the block will be £9000. Trinity Church House cannot fail to prove a centre of great good to the neighbourhood.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.