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Repository	Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No	AAW/DOW/PAR/115
Title	Kilburn West, Immaculate Heart of Mary
Level	Series
Description	The Parish of Kilburn West was founded in 1948, when the post-war growth in population in the parish of Sacred Heart, Kilburn grew so great that Fr Danaher bought a former Methodist chapel (built c 1880), together with an adjoining house, in West Kilburn and established it as a Mass Centre. With a contribution of £100 from the Methodist Church, the building was roughly adapted for use as a Catholic church, completely transforming the original 1880s interior. Mass was first celebrated in the newly renovated church on Christmas Day, 1948. In the early 1970s, planning permission was granted for a new church with a hall and presbytery on an enlarged site in the centre of a new public housing development, the South Kilburn Estate. The three-storey presbytery and two-storey hall were built first, but the new church was never commenced, though there may have been some alterations to the internal arrangements. In 1980, plans by the architects Slater Hodnett proposed raising the church by an additional storey, but these came to nothing. The church is run by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, a congregation of religious men founded by St Eugene de Mazenod, who first began their ministry in Kilburn in 1865.

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