St Mary le Strand is a Church of England church at the eastern end of the Strand in the City of Westminster, London. It lies within the Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret) within the Diocese of London. The church stands on what was until recently a traffic island to the north of Somerset House, King's College London's Strand campus, and south of Bush House (formerly the headquarters of the BBC World Service and now also part of King's College London). It is the official church of the Women's Royal Naval Service, and has a book of remembrance for members who have died in service. The nearest tube station is Temple, with the now-closed Aldwych station nearly opposite the church. It is known as one of the two 'Island Churches', the other being St Clement Danes.
 
Interesting fact...
When James Gibbs designed the church for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches, the idea was not to give it a spire at all, but instead to erect a 250‑foot‑high column topped with a statue of Queen Anne on the green in front of the church.  Vast quantities of stone were brought to the site for this monument, but when Queen Anne died in 1714 the project was scrapped, partly because the giant column felt too “Roman Catholic” in flavour and partly because the political moment had passed.
Instead of the column, the authorities ordered Gibbs to reuse the stone for a steeple, which radically altered the church’s original design and gave us the elegant baroque spire that now defines St Mary le Strand on the Strand’s skyline.  The fate of the brass statue of the queen, which had already been cast in Florence by John Talman, remains unknown—an extra little mystery tucked into the church’s history.