The Church of the Most Precious Blood in Southwark

The Roman Catholic Church of the Most Precious Blood is a Roman Catholic church of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, on O'Meara Street in

Southwark, London Southwark ( ) is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark. The district, which is the oldest part of South London, developed ...

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. The church and its adjoining presbytery, forecourt walls and shrine have been

listed Grade II In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern I ...

on the National Heritage List for England since 2014. The shrine outside the church to Our Lady of Lourdes (or Our Lady of All Nations) was dedicated in 1957. It is made from Sicilian marble and stands in a niche lined with flint from Norfolk. The church serves the Parish of the Most Precious Blood which was established in 1891 by the Bishop of Southwark,

John Baptist Butt John Baptist Butt (20 April 1826 – 1 November 1899) was an English prelate who served as the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark from 1885 to 1897. Life Born in Richmond, Surrey, Butt was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Nicho ...

upon a bequest of £10,000. The church was designed by the architect

Frederick Walters Frederick Arthur Walters (1849–1931) was a Scottish architect working in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, notable for his Roman Catholic churches. Life Walters was born on 5 February 1849 at 6 South Terrace, Brompton, London, the son of the ar ...

and the combined cost of the construction of the church and adjoining presbytery was £7,000. Denis Evinson, in his book ''Catholic Churches of London'', described the interior as "...a joy to enter, warm, welcoming and uncluttered by busy detail". The two bells of the church were made in the Whitechapel Bell Foundry and installed in 1956. The

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that adorn the walls of the interior were made from terracotta by the Swiss artist . In 2013, the parish joined the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

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Church of the Most Precious Blood The Church of the Most Precious Blood is a Roman Catholic parish located in New York City. The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and is the National Shrine Church of San Gennaro. Located at 113 Baxter Street with ...

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