Marsham Street is a street in the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a London borough with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Greater London, England. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It contains a large par ...

in London, England. It is approximately one mile in length and runs south from Great Peter Street near Victoria Street and Parliament Square.

Description

Marsham Street bisects

Horseferry Road Horseferry Road is a street in the City of Westminster in central London running between Millbank and Greycoat Place and designated part of the B323 road, along with Greycoat Place, Artillery Row and Buckingham Gate. Until 2011, it was the ...

and runs from the Tate Foundation on John Islip Street to Great Smith Street. Like many streets in the area, it has long been the location for offices of the

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, and is currently home to the

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, the

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and the

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. Along with Great Smith Street to the north and John Islip Street to the south, it is designated the B326 in the

Great Britain Road Numbering Scheme In Great Britain, there is a numbering scheme used to Categorization, classify and identify all roads. Each road is given a single letter (representing a category) and a subsequent number (between one and four digits). Though this scheme was in ...

. Romney House (47 Marsham Street) was built in the 1930s by the Austro British architect . The large red brick church (9–23 Marsham Street) was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and A. T. Scott in 1928 for Christian Scientists. In the 1990s, it became the Emmanuel Centre (a conference centre) and the Emmanuel Evangelical Church. Marsham Street has been subject to a number of high-end residential developments formed out of what used to be

Westminster Hospital Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719. In 1834 a medical school attached to the hospital was formally founded. In 1939 a newly built hospital and medical school opened in Horseferry Road, Westminster. In 1994 the ...

and associated former nursing accommodation. These developments were completed between 2005 and 2007.

References

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