No listings found in this category yet
Check back soon — we're always adding new businesses.
Chapel Place
Chapel Place is a short pedestrian-scale street in W1G, connecting Vere Street to the immediate north of Oxford Street. Its name derives from the chapel that once stood nearby, the Oxford Chapel at Vere Street, designed by James Gibbs in 1722 and founded by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford as a chapel of ease to serve the growing Marylebone parish. The chapel was acquired by the Crown from the Portland Estate in 1817, rededicated to St Peter in 1832, and is now deconsecrated and occupied by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.
Chapel Place sits at the southern edge of the Cavendish-Harley Estate grid, one block back from Oxford Street. Its position gives it a dual character: the retail energy of Oxford Street is immediately adjacent, while the quieter professional streets of the estate grid begin just to the north. Wigmore Street and the broader Marylebone High Street axis lie within easy reach.
In recent years, One Chapel Place, a prominent office development at the corner with Vere Street, has brought renewed commercial attention to this small enclave. The project, delivered by GPE, represents a significant uplift in net lettable space on a constrained site. Despite this contemporary intervention, the street's name and alignment preserve a direct trace of the early eighteenth-century estate planning that shaped this part of Marylebone, when chapels and streets were laid out together as part of the Harley family's systematic approach to urban development.
The Our Gazette
Delivered weekly to your inbox
Join 12,000+ Our insiders
