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).

Hoddesdon – St Augustine

A large, well-mannered post-war building of civic character and presence, in a prominent corner position in the... Read More

Holloway – Sacred Heart of Jesus

A Gothic design of 1869-70 by F. H. Pownall with attached presbytery and an unfinished tower. Apart from the reordered... Read More

Homerton – Immaculate Heart of St Mary and St Dominic

A nineteenth-century church by C. A. Buckler, uncharacteristically for him in the Early Christian style. Largely... Read More

Hounslow – St Michael and St Martin

A suburban brick church in Basilican Romanesque style, one of many such built in the interwar period to meet the needs... Read More

Hoxton – St Monica’s Priory

An economically-built but distinctively-designed mission church and priory, by E. W. Pugin for the Augustinians. Pugin... Read More

Isleworth – Our Lady of Sorrows and St Bridget

An Edwardian church in the centre of Isleworth and a landmark at a busy junction. Externally it is a building of mixed... Read More

Islington – Our Lady of Częstochowa and St Casimir (Polish Church)

A mid-nineteenth-century Gothic Revival church, built as the New Church College, the Swedenborgian national seminary... Read More

Islington – St John the Evangelist

A neo-Romanesque brick church built in the 1840s to designs by J. J. Scoles. Originally intended to be symmetrical,... Read More

Islington (Copenhagen Street) – The Blessed Sacrament

A small urban church with a lively domestic-looking frontage and plain side elevation, now opened to view. The church... Read More

Kensal New Town – Our Lady of the Holy Souls

A relatively simple Early English brick church, built on a tight budget for the Oblates of St Charles from designs by... Read More

Kensal Rise – Church of the Transfiguration

A Methodist church built in 1899 and acquired for Roman Catholic worship in 1977, the present worship space the... Read More

Kensington – Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock

Built for the Discalced Carmelite Order, this is a late church by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, in a free Gothic style. It... Read More

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