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St Marylebone Parish Church,
designed by Thomas Hardwick, was consecrated in 1817.
The large, stately church was built after the former church,
where Lord Byron was christened in 1778, became too small
for the congregation.
Hardwick was determined that
his new church should not suffer the same fate and so built
everything on a large scale.
In 1846 the poets Robert Browning
and Elizabeth Barret were secretly married at St Marylebone
Parish Church after Elizabeth had scandalously eloped from
her strict family home in nearby Wimpole Street.
Admission free
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