Where is it? #7

This is the seventh in our series in which we ask you to identify where in London this picture was taken and what it’s of. If you reckon you know the answer, leave a comment below. We’ll reveal the answer early next week. Good luck!

No takers this week (are we making them too hard?) The answer is that this is the steeple of the St Marylebone Parish Church near Regent’s Park. Consecrated in 1817 and designed by Thomas Hardwick (a clerk of works to King George III), it was built after the previous church on the site had become too small. Among the many famous people the church has associations with are the poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett – they were married here in 1846, Elizabethan philosopher Francis Bacon – he was married in one of the previous churches in 1606, and Lord Byron – he was christened in the previous church in 1778. The church is also depicted in the marriage scene in William Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress. For more on the origins of the word Marylebone, see our previous entry here

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