19-507: St Peter, Vere Street , known until 1832 as the Oxford Chapel after its founder Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , is a former Anglican church off Oxford Street , London. It has sometimes been referred to as the Marybone Chapel or Marylebone Chapel . The chapel was designed by James Gibbs in 1722. It was originally intended as a Chapel of Ease to supplement
38-461: A considerable amount of land in the West End of London which was developed during his life. Many of the now famous streets took their names from Harley connections – primarily Harley Street and Oxford Street . Other streets, named after Harley properties, include Wigmore Street and Wimpole Street . On 31 August 1713 he married Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles (1694–1755), only daughter and heir of
57-572: A number of papers relating to the 2nd Earl and the management of his estates in the Portland (London) collection. Harley family papers (Pw2Hy) are part of the Portland (Welbeck) Collection. Through his wife, he inherited Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire, and Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire. Wimpole became their main residence, but they had to sell it in 1740 to pay Edward's debts. He also acquired
76-684: A single-member seat in 1918 and abolished once again in 1983. The county was represented by two Knights of the Shire until 1832, when the number of members was increased to three by the Great Reform Act . Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , the constituency was abolished and was divided into three single-member constituencies: the Western or Chesterton Division, the Eastern or Newmarket Division and
95-458: Is a close copy of that here. 51°30′55″N 0°08′51″W / 51.5154°N 0.1474°W / 51.5154; -0.1474 Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (2 June 1689 – 16 June 1741) was an English Tory politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1711 to 1724. Edward Harley
114-584: Is a former Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom . It was a constituency represented by two Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832, when its representation was increased to three until it was abolished in 1885. It was reconstituted as
133-842: The 1st Duke of Newcastle and his wife, the former Lady Margaret Cavendish , daughter of the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne . They had two children: Lord Oxford and Mortimer died in London in 1741 and was buried in the vault of the Duke of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey. He was succeeded in the earldom by his cousin Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer . David Stoker, 'Harley, Edward, second earl of Oxford and Mortimer (1689–1741)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [1] Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency) Cambridgeshire
152-487: The Local Government Act 1972 . Under the subsequent redistribution of seats, which did not come into effect until the 1983 general election , Cambridgeshire was abolished as a county constituency, forming the bulk of the new constituency of South East Cambridgeshire and the majority of South West Cambridgeshire . 1290–1653, 1658-1885 : The historic county of Cambridgeshire . (Although Cambridgeshire contained
171-459: The roof at the west end; the first stage is square, and of brick, while the second two stages are octagonal, and pierced on each side. At the east end is a Venetian window , with a pediment above. There was originally a stone vase on each corner of the building. Inside, the nave has an elliptical nave vault supported on Corinthian columns , flanked by cross-vaulted aisles. There are galleries in both nave and chancel. Victorian alterations included
190-599: The Chesterton Division (excluding areas that were now part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Cambridge) and the Newmarket Division (excluding the city of Ely which was included in the Parliamentary County of Isle of Ely ). The administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely had been recombined in 1965 and Cambridgeshire was further expanded in 1974 to include Huntingdon and Peterborough under
209-583: The County of Middlesex, and also a Chapel erected on Sunk Island in the River Humber". It was licensed for marriages from 1722 to 1754 and between 1930 and its deconsecration: Margaret Bentinck (daughter of the 2nd Earl, and Duchess of Portland) married here. Incumbents included the theologian F. D. Maurice (1860–69), and William Boyce was the chapel's organist from 1734 to 1736. Its interior appears in plate 2 of Hogarth's print series Industry and Idleness . It
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#1732851474274228-580: The Northern or Wisbech Division. Under the Local Government Act 1888 , the historic county of Cambridgeshire was divided between the administrative counties of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely . When the parliamentary constituencies were next redistributed under the Representation of the People Act 1918 , Cambridgeshire was re-constituted as a single-member Parliamentary County, largely formed from combining
247-461: The borough of Cambridge , which elected two MPs in its own right, this was not excluded from the county constituency, and owning property within the borough could confer a vote at the county election. In the elections of 1830 and 1831, about an eighth of the votes cast for the county came from within Cambridge itself. The city of Ely also elected its own MPs in 1295.) 1654–1658 : The historic county
266-521: The installation of stained-glass windows by Edward Burne-Jones , made by Morris & Co. , which remain in place. Gibbs published plans of the building in his Book Of Architecture , in which it is called 'Marybone Chapel'. Its ground plan was copied at St Paul's Church , Halifax, Nova Scotia, the earliest Anglican church in Canada, and the Holy Ghost plaque in the ceiling at St Thomas' Church, Stourbridge ,
285-458: The latter was having war damage repaired, and then became a chapel of ease to it. The church is built of brick, with stone quoins . The main entrance is at the west end, with steps leading up to a Doric porch. The pediment once held a carved coat of arms of a member of the De Vere family; this was removed in 1832, when the building was renovated and named St Peter's. A tower rises from the ridge of
304-623: The parish church for the growing parish of Marylebone . The building was acquired by the Crown from the Portland Estate in 1817 and was dedicated to St Peter in 1832. In 1830, Parliament had passed an "Act for endowing the Parish Church of Newborough in the County of Northampton, and Three Chapels, called Portland Chapel, Oxford Chapel, and Welbeck Chapel, situate in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-bone, in
323-543: Was also here that the French chef Jassintour Rozea married his French wife Mary Magdalen Bernard in April 1744. They lived on Duke Street close to Grosvenor Square. He became Master Chef to the Duke of Somerset, Charles Seymour, presenting sumptuous banquets for his guests. He wrote several cookery books on gourmet French cooking in the 1750s. St Peter's served the congregation of All Souls Church, Langham Place , from 1940 to 1951 whilst
342-804: Was auctioned by Christopher Cock at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden over six days, from 18 March 1742. He extended his father's library and expanded the Harleian Collection , now in the British Library , but a large part of his book collection was acquired by the Danish count Otto Thott , on whose death in 1785 much went to the Royal Library in Copenhagen . The department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, The University of Nottingham holds
361-522: Was born on 2 June 1689. He was the only son of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and his first wife Elizabeth Foley. He was MP for Radnor (as his father and paternal grandfather had been before him) from 1711 to 1714, and for Cambridgeshire from 1722 until he succeeded his father in 1724 and entered the House of Lords . He was a bibliophile, collector and patron of the arts, and took little interest in public affairs. Harley's considerable collection of coins and medals – 520 lots in all –
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