| Description | In 1851 Cardinal Wiseman sent his most prestigious convert, Henry Edward Manning, to Bayswater to found a community whose mission would be to revitalize the clergy and faithful in the new diocese of Westminster. Manning founded the Oblates of St Charles at Bayswater, and had considerable success in evangelizing northwest London.
The Oblates of St Charles founded many parishes in Westminster and North Kensington. For over 100 years, the Oblates ministered to the people of Bayswater and Notting Hill - first to the largely Irish population but later to the Carribean and other ethnic communities.
In the 1970s, Cardinal Heenan, dissolved the Oblates, and the parish passed to the secular clergy of the Diocese of Westminster. |