Kensington Mission: founded 1794.
Pro Cathedral of Westminster: 1869-1903.
Destroyed by bombing: 1940.
Present church completed: 1958.
The term 'Pro Cathedral' needs an explanation. A pro-cathedral can be a parish church that temporarily serves as the cathedral in a Catholic jurisdiction that is not yet entitled to a proper cathedral. In the case of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, St. Mary, Moorfields initially served as the pro-cathedral from 1850 when the Archdiocese was established. In 1870 Our Lady of Victories, Kensington, took on the role until Westminster Cathedral was completed and opened in 1903.
Site: Our Lady of Victories (1 memorial)
W8, Kensington High Street
Our Lady of Victories is a church of stripped neo-Gothic, 1955, by Adrian Gilbert Scott (see also the Infants Hospital), built on the site of the former 1869 pro-cathedral, bombed in 1940. The church is set back from the road behind a screen incorporating shops. As was the bombed church which probably explains why we can find no image of its exterior, but here it is on a c..
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