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All Soul's Place
All Souls Place is a short alley running off Langham Place in the eastern reaches of Marylebone, within the W1B postal district. The passage owes its existence to the construction of Regent Street in the early 1820s, making it roughly two centuries old. It takes its name directly from All Souls Church, the only church designed by John Nash in London, consecrated on 25 November 1824 by the Bishop of London.
Nash conceived All Souls as the northern anchor of his grand Regent Street scheme, intended to provide a visual terminus to the new thoroughfare. The church was built of Bath stone and attracted considerable criticism at the time for its slender spire and mixture of architectural styles. It was severely damaged during the Second World War and remained closed until 1951, before undergoing substantial reconstruction in 1975 and 1976, including the addition of a lower hall beneath the existing structure.
The alley itself is modest in scale, as befits a passage that grew up in the shadow of a major public building rather than through independent development. It runs along the northern flank of the church and has remained a quiet pedestrian route connecting Langham Place to the streets behind. The Howard de Walden Estate's territory begins a short distance to the west, though this corner of Marylebone sits at the edge of both great estate boundaries, close to the BBC's Broadcasting House on Portland Place.
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