Fitzrovia Chapel

TUESDAY 10th MARCH

Live Performance: Sian O’Gorman and Garwyn Linnell followed by panel discussion

Pleased to be hosting an improvised acoustic performance by NYX composer Sian O’Gorman .edc and cellist Garwyn Linnell using voice and cello to shape a landscape of resonance and breath - an invitation to listen to memory as atmosphere, texture and felt presence. After the performance, Sian and Garwynn will be joined by NYX movement director Imogen Knight and olfactory designers Alice Denim and Luka Sykes

Tickets £10 via Eventbrite (link in bio)

As the first signs of spring appear, we thought we’d talk a bit about flowers 🌷

With our two hundred candles, and the intricate detail of the chapel, you can choose a minimalist or maximalist approach to your ceremony flowers.

Whether it be simple bouquets or elaborate urn arrangements, we are constantly inspired by the beautiful arrangements florists bring through our little wooden door.

We always encourage seasonal and environmentally conscious florals at the chapel. This ensures that your flowers not only look delicate and carefully considered, but don’t damage the planet either. We also hope that florists are able to create arrangements using sustainable materials, avoiding toxic floral foam.

Ask us for recommendations on how to make your ceremony flowers more sustainable. We can also connect you with some wonderful florists ✨✨✨




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Miseris Succurrere Disco

6 to 25 March 2026
11am to 6pm Monday – Saturday
Late night Thursday until 8pm
12pm to 5pm Sunday
Admission free

We are excited to reveal our second exhibition by our inaugural Curators-in-Residence – the award-winning artists and BAFTA-nominated filmmakers .

The show takes its title from the motto of the former Middlesex Hospital, the hospital which the chapel served. It is most simply translated as “I learn to help those in need” and originates from Virgil’s Aeneid – Non ignara mali, miseris succurrere disco (“Having known misfortune myself, I am learning to help those in distress”). The show reflects on how personal tragedy can awaken empathy, mercy and collective care.

The exhibition explores grief, sanctuary and transcendence through a series of newly commissioned works that invite audiences into an experiential, durational environment shaped by sound, light and scent.

At the heart of Miseris Succurrere Disco is a major new sound commission by the experimental vocal collective .edc . Created as a choral and electronic composition, the 20-minute work takes visitors on a transcendental journey from despair to solace. Designed to loop and play three times an hour, the piece will unfold within an enhanced acoustic environment developed in collaboration with Arup, whose expertise in spatial sound design will allow audiences to experience the visceral highs and lows of the composition as an embodied, immersive encounter.

Working in dialogue with NYX’s new sound piece, scenographer Emmanuel Biard will present a new light sculpture positioned at the chapel’s marble altar. A single moving beam will slowly trace the spine of the building, transforming the space from intimate and shadowed to expansive and euphoric.

The olfactive design studio Denim-Sykes will create a subtle, evocative scent work in two parts.

This experience – charged with sonic, olfactive and atmospheric cues – will also feature a sculptural object displayed on the chapel font by London-based artist and joint winner of the 2019 Turner Prize .

Press: [email protected].

Love is in the air! On Sunday we enjoyed a bumper day of art workshops, starting with a Victorian decoupage Valentine’s card workshop for families hosted by , followed by fancy dress life drawing with .

We will be hosting more low cost creative workshops for all ages throughout the year. Sign up for news via our website 💌

If you are a charity or community group looking for a venue to host a workshop, please get in touch.

Postcards from getting married in London’s most beautiful chapel 💌

Our first show of the year, Souvenir, by curators-in-residence closes this Sunday. It's a living room containing a snowglobe containing a tiny chapel. It's a tale of an older London told among hypnotic chords and sounds. It's a moment to be part of that story.

Thank you to for visiting today and for your great interest in the chapel and the show. It was really appreciated.

Souvenir closes this Sunday at 5pm. Free entry.

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Elizabeth Waight: Marchlands
23rd to 26th February 2026
Private view: Tuesday 24th February 6-8

In medieval times, the marchlands were the lands comprising the borders of a territory. Over centuries, they’ve taken on a mythic resonance: the edge of the map, the space between what is seen and what is sensed.

Marchlands: The Space Between brings together Elizabeth Waight’s photography, writing, and celebrant practice in a multi-sensory exploration of liminality: the thresholds between landscape and story, silence and song, ritual and imagination.

At the heart of the exhibition is the Fitzrovia Chapel itself: a vessel of stillness and sanctuary, and a resonant setting for work that listens to what lies beneath the visible world. Through image, text, and sound, you are invited to step into the in-between. To dwell for a moment in the hush before meaning, where echoes, stories and memories converge.

Waight’s photographs map the fragile borderlines of beauty and loss – from vanishing woodlands to imagined sanctuaries – while audio from her forthcoming book Blood Song draws the listener through the Chapel’s own sacred threshold. Other work explores ritual and transformation through the lens of her celebrant work: Pòsadh Clock is a poetic assemblage of Celtic wedding traditions.

Marchlands is both an unveiling and an invocation: a celebration of the unseen, the half-remembered, the luminous space where art, love, and story meet.

Soft summer days that feel like they could last forever… ✨

Olivia and Luigi held their ceremony under our golden ceiling on the summer solstice last year, and what a day it was.

We’re looking forward to longer and brighter days and getting to know all the wonderful couples we’ll be working with this summer.

If you’d like to get married at the chapel, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected]

Our next wedding open house is on Tuesday 10th February from 4-7pm. You can drop in and don’t need to book❣️

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'Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.'
Milan Kundera

A little note about dogs in the chapel. We love them.

For weddings, open days, most exhibitions. For memorials, book launches, funerals. We welcome friendly dogs on leads. We understand your dog can add to your feeling of peace, calm and joy while in the chapel.

During the busiest times, we may ask you to wait awhile before you bring in your dog. For some shows, the exhibits may be a little fragile. Otherwise, please both step inside and enjoy your time together.

Souvenir, 9 January to 8 February 2026, free entry

An exhibition by the chapel’s inaugural Curators-in-Residence – the award-winning artists and BAFTA-nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard.

Drawing on strategies of filmmaking and storytelling and pulling from literature, performance, music, visual arts, craft and design, Souvenir is the first in a trilogy of exhibitions the duo will curate throughout 2026 in the Chapel’s glimmering and profound interior – an enchanting jewel of Byzantine-inspired architecture in the heart of London.

https://www.fitzroviachapel.org/series/souvenir/

We're pleased to announce the appointment of artists and BAFTA nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard as Curators in Residence for 2026. This ambitious new annual initiative invites a guest curator to devise a programme of three stand-out exhibitions for the chapel. The shows – which will transform the chapel in January, March and autumn 2026 – will be immersive, resonant experiences that go beyond that of a traditional ‘white box’ art gallery, referencing the chapel’s rich historical, spiritual and cultural roots.

The Fitzrovia Chapel Announces Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard as Curators in Residence for 2026 - The Fitzrovia Chapel The Fitzrovia Chapel is pleased to announce the appointment of artists and BAFTA nominated filmmakers Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard as Curators in Residence for 2026. This ambitious new annual...

Honouring our history, we are showing a pop-up exhibition 1 to 3 September with the HIV Story Trust at the chapel. It is free to enter and part of our public open days (11am to 5pm). The Middlesex Hospital had the first dedicated HIV and AIDS wards in London, the Broderip and Charles Bell Wards.