Wells Street

Wells Street is a street in the City of Westminster. It runs from Riding House Street in the north to Oxford Street in the south. It is crossed by Mortimer Street and Eastcastle Street. It is joined on its western side by Marylebone Passage and on the eastern side by Booth's Place and Wells Mews.

For the street in Chicago, see Wells Street (Chicago).
Corner of Wells Street & Mortimer Street
St Andrew's Church, c. 1846.
Wells Street (centre diagonal) on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map.

St Andrew's church

Wells Street was once the location of St Andrew's church, completed to designs by Samuel Daukes in 1847, which was deconstructed and rebuilt in its entirety in Kingsbury, Middlesex, in 1933–34.[1][2][3] The site was then vacant and used as a car park before offices were built on it which are now occupied by the University of Westminster. Flats known as St Andrew's Chambers were built adjacent to the site around 1900.

The actress Sarah Bernhardt married Aristide Damala at St Andrew's in 1882.[1] In 1890 Count Alexander Munster's marriage to Lady Muriel Hay at St Andrew's was depicted on the front page of The Illustrated London News.[4]

Businesses

The Susan Small fashion business was based at number 76.

Notable buildings

It contains listed buildings:

References
  1. St Andrew’s Church, formerly in Wells Street, now at Kingsbury, Middlesex. Survey of London,University College London, 1 April 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  2. "Kingsbury's Recycled Church" (PDF). Brent.gov.uk. London Borough of Brent. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. "SAINT ANDREW, SAINT MARYLEBONE: WELLS STREET, WESTMINSTER". AIM25 Archive. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  4. The Illustrated London News, No. 2669, Vol. XCVI, 14 June 1890, p. 1.
  5. Historic England. "The Champion Public House (1267696)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  6. Historic England. "St Margaret's House (1249911)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 August 2017.

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