A picture from the Cathedral in 1954, with prayers being offered at the image of the newly canonised Pope Pius X. Incidentally, you will note the marble covering of the piers has not yet arrived!
Westminster Cathedral is the mother church of the Roman Catholic community in England and Wales. This extraordinary house of God was opened in 1903, and its distinctive Byzantine architecture provides the visitor with what Sir John Betjeman called "a series of surprises".
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