Westminster

The Archdiocese of Westminster was founded on 29 September 1850. It covers the Greater London boroughs north of the Thames and west of Waltham Forest and Newham, as well as the districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames, and the county of Hertfordshire.The cathedral is in Victoria, London, and is dedicated to the Precious Blood. 216 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2013).

Parsons Green – Holy Cross

An early work of T.H.B. Scott, in collaboration with Fr Benedict Williamson, in their distinctive stripped Early... Read More

Perivale – St John Fisher

A modern, fairly small, church, located alongside the A40 trunk road. It is not a building of significant heritage... Read More

Pimlico – Holy Apostles

A large and well-built design of the mid-1950s, gently Modern and slightly Scandinavian in its architectural style,... Read More

Pinner – St Luke

A late work by F. X. Velarde, in his distinctive modern basilican manner, with a prominent Westwerk. This was the... Read More

Ponders End – Mary Mother of God

An interwar church designed by Joseph Goldie in a free Perpendicular style, competently handled but somewhat... Read More

Poplar – St Mary and St Joseph

A post-war church dating from the time of the Festival of Britain, when Lansbury was chosen as the site of the... Read More

Potters Bar – Our Lady and St Vincent

A dramatic modern church by Francis Weal, with a vesica-shaped plan and a centralised internal layout. It replaced a... Read More

Queensway – Our Lady Queen of Heaven

A tall, double galleried former Nonconformist church, designed on a horseshoe plan. Originally built for the United... Read More

Radlett – St Anthony of Padua

A pleasant domestic Italianate design in a suburban street, its light vaulted interior containing some old and new... Read More

Redbourn – St John Fisher

A well-considered design of the immediate post-Vatican II years, with a dramatic ‘one-sided’ roof and furnishings... Read More

Rickmansworth – Our Lady Help of Christians

An attractive early twentieth-century design by Arthur Young, built for a French congregation but thoroughly English... Read More

Royston – St Thomas of Canterbury and the English Martyrs

A striking example of Romanità on the outskirts of a Hertfordshire market town. The church was built during the First... Read More

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