Fitzrovia Chapel

The chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital now stands alone in a quiet pedestrianised square off Mortimer Street, the hospital demolished around it and rebuilt as Fitzroy Place. John Loughborough Pearson began the building in 1891 and his son Frank completed the interior after his death, a job that ran on for decades. What they left is Grade II* listed and almost entirely surface: a rib-vaulted ceiling of gilded mosaic strewn with stars, banded marble walls, stained glass in every window.

There is one room and it is let whole. A charitable foundation has cared for the building since a two-year restoration finished in 2015, and private hire is much of what keeps it standing, so the team knows the space in use: exhibitions, book and product launches, concerts, ceremonies, fashion and film shoots. The King recorded his 2024 Christmas broadcast here.

It seats 78 and asks to be used gently. The chapel offers itself for gentle music and for concerts and performance, and the small electric organ in the west gallery still works, but its listed-building restrictions are set out privately with each client rather than published. Amplification, a late finish and anything DJ-led are matters to agree with the foundation before they are planned.