As part of our Fitzroy Place development, we are honoured that the Fitzrovia Chapel was chosen to provide the backdrop for King Charles’s 2024 Christmas Broadcast.
In the King’s Christmas message, he praised the community response to the UK summer riots and thanked medical staff who have cared for him and the Princess of Wales through their cancer treatment, which motivated his decision to speak from the chapel of the former Middlesex Hospital.
This gothic revivalist Grade II listed chapel is the hidden gem at Fitzroy Place, originally designed as a quiet place for rest and relaxation for the patients and staff of the Middlesex Hospital and famously described as “the most beautiful room in London you probably didn’t know about.” Loved by many as an enchanting jewel of Byzantine-inspired architecture, the Chapel is located in the heart of London’s Fitzrovia community and today serves as an enriching cultural space for health and wellbeing, hosting concerts and exhibitions, free to visit and open to all.
The chapel is part of Fitzroy Place, our contemporary mixed-use development set around the first new square developed in Central London for over a century. One of London’s most successful mixed-use ventures it combines 300 homes, 252,000 sq ft of high-quality office space, a club lounge and gym, 20,000 sq ft of shops and restaurants, a healthcare unit and the Grade II listed chapel.
The site dates back to 1757, the home of the Middle Infirmary which evolved to become one of London’s great teaching hospitals. After the hospital closed in 2005, it became Fitzroy Place in 2015 named for Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, who first developed the area in the late 1700s. We are honoured that the sensitive restoration of the chapel meant a new chapter was written in the rich history of this site this Christmas.