St Cyprian's Church is a parish church of the Church of England in the Marylebone district of London. The church was consecrated in 1903, but the parish was founded in 1866.

Venue: St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate
Town: London, GB

St Cyprian's Church is a parish church of the Church of England in the Marylebone district of London. The church was consecrated in 1903, but the parish was founded in 1866. It is dedicated to Cyprian, a third-century martyr and bishop of Carthage and is near the Clarence Gate Gardens entrance to Regent's Park, off Baker Street. The present church was designed by Ninian Comper and is a Grade II* listed building. The parish was formed by the efforts of 'slum priest' Charles Gutch, who after curacies at St Matthias', Stoke Newington, St Paul's, Knightsbridge, and All Saints, Margaret Street wanted a church of his own. Gutch's campaigning Anglo Catholic views and pastoral mission to London's poor led him to propose a mission church in the then slum enclave northeastern corner of Marylebone. This required a portion of the parishes of St Marylebone and St Paul, Rossmore Road to be handed over. However, neither the Rector of St Marylebone nor the Vicar of St Paul's approved of the Anglo Catholic churchmanship and pastoral stance of Gutch. Gutch eventually negotiated one tenth of St Paul's parish be transferred to a new mission district where church attendance was in any case poor and which was then densely populated due to the overcrowded slums. Gutch proposed to dedicate the mission chapel to St Cyprian of Carthage, explaining: "I was especially struck by his tender loving care for his people, the considerateness with which he treated them... And I said, 'If only I can copy him, and in my poor way do as he did, I too may be able to keep my little flock in the right path, the road which leads to God and Heaven'." Designed by the celebrated church architect George Edmund Street, St Cyprian's Mission Chapel was a low-budget conversion of a terraced house and a mews hay barn, unlike Street's typical grander designs. The first Eucharist was celebrated on 29 March 1866. A contemporary description refers to the “little church" as "a quaint building consisting of the front rooms