St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, is an

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church in the

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neighbourhood of the

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, London. The building was completed by 1847 and was badly damaged in an unexplained fire on 26 January 2023. It is located at the intersection of

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and Hamilton Terrace.

History

Dating to 1846–1847, St Mark's was designed by Thomas Cundy with a spire built by his son in 1864, and is

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with

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. The church contained a collection of mosaics by Salviati.

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was appointed vicar of St Mark's in 1870, after spending four years as the tutor of Queen Victoria's youngest son Prince Leopold. The Prince laid the building's foundation stone in 1877. St Mark's survived being hit by a bomb in 1941 during World War Two, with work to rebuild its spire being completed in 1955. The church has been part of the

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movement within the Church of England, and their main Sunday service included a Choral Parish Eucharist.

2023 fire

The church was badly damaged by an unexplained fire during the late night and early morning of 26–27 January 2023. BBC News described the church as "destroyed", noting that the roof had collapsed but the steeple (rebuilt in 1955) was still standing. The vicar, the Reverend Kate Harrison, said that the fire was "heart-breaking for us as a church and a local community". The

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carried out investigations into the cause of the fire. On 27 January 2023, the parish stated that "we don't yet know the full extent of the damage, but we will rebuild." https://twitter.com/StMark_HT/status/1619089681123262467

Gallery

File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace.jpg, St Mark's File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace NW8 interior.jpg, Nave File:St Mark, Hamilton Terrace, St Johns Wood - Stained glass window - geograph.org.uk - 3612392.jpg, East window File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace NW8 Hobling memorial mosaic.jpg, Hobling mosaic File:Memorial to Norman Shanks Kerr at St Marks Church.jpg,

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mosaic File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace NW8 Erskine memorial mosaic.jpg, Erskine memorial mosaic File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace NW8 memorial mosaic.jpg, Charles Drayson mosaic File:St Mark's Hamilton Terrace NW8 Morton Memorial mosaic.jpg, Thomas Morton mosaic

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