PBWA Pimlico
The west door of the Church of St. Gabriel, Warwick Square 

Parish church, 1851-3, architect Thomas Cundy II (with his son, Thomas Cundy III), contractor Messrs John Kelk. Spire rebuilt and choir vestry added 1887 -88, architect J.P. St. Aubyn. Outer aisles, west porch and south-east chapel added 1896-97, architects Baker and Turrill, contractor John Thompson of Peterborough. Kentish Ragstone rubble, originally with Bath stone dressings and spire; dressings replaced and spire rebuilt in 'white' (presumably Portland) stone in 1887 -88. Blue Welsh slated roofs, lead flats over centre of outer aisles. 5-bay nave with clerestory, double aisles, the inner taller as lean-to's, the outer with individual gables bays. Lower, 3-bay chancel, gabled south-east chapel with polygonal apse against south chancel wall, gabled vestry to north, with taller gabled choir vestry beyond. South gabled porch, western gabled porch/narthex, north porch below south-west tower, with spire. Decorated Gothic style. Geometrical tracery to most windows. Simple 2-light clerestory windows with cusped heads and roundels, more elaborate tall 2-light windows in two stages, with flanking lancets, to outer aisles. Large 6-light west window with cusped quatrefoils, and upper circular light filled with cusped trefoils. 
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