St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster

Saint Charles Borromeo church Saint Charles Borromeo church interior

The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Charles Borromeo is a Roman Catholic church on Ogle Street in the Diocese of Westminster, London.[1] It is named after Charles Borromeo, a 16th-century Italian saint.

## History

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On the outside it is Gothic Revival style; the architect was Samuel Joseph Nicholl, in partnership with T. J. Willson.[2] The church was built in 1862/3 and cost £4,000 (equivalent to £483,433 in 2023) on anonymously donated land. The builders were Messrs Patman and Fotheringham. It was opened by Cardinal Wiseman on 20 May 1863.[3][4]

John Francis Bentley added a reredos, high altar and communion rails in 1870/73. The reredos, which is thirty feet high, has two tiers of saints painted on slate by Nathaniel Westlake. The frontal for the Lady Chapel altar was added in 1879.

The reredos, designed by Nicholl, in the Sacred Heart chapel was added in 1902, with four angels in niches are holding the instruments of the Passion; in the central niche is a statue of the Sacred Heart by Theodore Phyffers (1821-1876), a Belgian-born sculptor working in London.

When the lease expired the church survived because Madame Meschini and her son Arturo purchased the land and donated it the Westminster diocese. The church was consecrated on 4 September 1921. It survived being damaged in the war and the interior was restored in 1957/63 and again in 1978/80, when the reredos was restored and a large forward altar, by Michael Anderson, installed. The octagonal immersion font, designed by Michael Anderson in collaboration with Mattia del Prete and Antonio Incognito of Rome, was installed in the nave in 1984.

There are four stained glass windows in the south aisle of Saints Patrick, Margaret, Cecilia (1898) and Thomas of Canterbury.

## See also

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* St Catherine's Church, West Drayton

## References

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1. ^ "Roman Catholic Church of St Charles Borromeo". Retrieved 30 March 2016.
2. ^ "Roman Catholic Church of St Catherine, Non Civil Parish - 1428695 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
3. ^ "Ogle Street - St Charles Borromeo". Taking Stock. Catholic Churches in England & Wales.
4. ^ "About the Parish. Parish History". Roman Catholic Church of St Charles Borromeo.

## External links

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Churches in the City of Westminster

Ancient parish
churches
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* St Anne, Soho
* St Clement Danes
* St George, Hanover Square
* St James, Piccadilly
* St Margaret, Westminster
* St Martin-in-the-Fields
* St Marylebone
* St Mary le Strand
* St Paul, Covent Garden

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St John the Evangelist, Smith Square

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Anglican
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* All Saints, Margaret Street
* All Souls, Langham Place
* Annunciation, Marble Arch
* Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair
* Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks
* Holy Trinity, South Kensington
* St Augustine, Kilburn
* St Cyprian, Clarence Gate
* St Gabriel, Pimlico
* St James, Paddington
* St James the Less, Pimlico
* St John's Wood Church
* St Mark, Hamilton Terrace
* St Mary, Bourne Street
* St Mary, Bryanston Square
* St Mary, Paddington Green
* St Mary Magdalene, Paddington
* St Matthew, Bayswater
* St Matthew, Westminster
* St Paul, Knightsbridge
* St Peter, Eaton Square
* St Saviour, Pimlico
* St Stephen, Rochester Row
* St Stephen, Westbourne Park

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* Christ Church, Marylebone
* Holy Trinity, Marylebone
* St Peter, Vere Street
* St Mark's, Mayfair

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Royal Peculiars|

* Henry VII Chapel
* Queen's Chapel, St James's Palace
* Savoy Chapel
* St Mary Undercroft
* Westminster Abbey

Catholic
churches|

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* Westminster Cathedral

* Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane
* Immaculate Conception, Farm Street
* Notre Dame de France
* Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street
* St Charles Borromeo, Westminster
* St James, Spanish Place
* St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater
* St Patrick, Soho Square

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Ukrainian|

* Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Mayfair

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other
denominations|

* Crown Court Church, Covent Garden
* Dormition Cathedral
* Emmanuel Evangelical Church
* Enon Chapel
* French Protestant Church, Soho
* Hinde Street Methodist Church
* Regent Hall
* St John's Wood Road Baptist Church
* St Sophia's Cathedral, Bayswater
* Ulrika Eleonora
* Welsh Church of Central London
* West London Methodist Mission
* West Street Chapel
* Methodist Central Hall
* Westminster Chapel

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Fitzrovia Chapel

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