All Souls occupies a prominent site at the top of Regent Street, where Langham Place curves to meet Portland Place. From Regent Street the old BBC Broadcasting House forms a somewhat unusual backdrop. A curious feature is the semi-detached porch and steeple, built out from the nave so as to appear at the centre of Regent Street. The rounded porch supports a unique conical steeple. This church was built in 1822–24 during the reign of George IV. It is the only church left in London designed by the famous John Nash, the person responsible for the architecture of Regent Street. His bust on the porch looks down the street that he created. The interior of All Souls has been beautifully restored. Underneath is a church hall constructed in the early 1970s at a cost of over £655,000, paid before completion with contributions from around the world. The church was reconsecrated on All Souls Day (2 November) 1976. It is a parish church with one of the largest congregations in London and is well known in America and throughout the Englishspeaking world due to the international ministry of John Stott, who was Rector 1950 to 1975.