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AAW - Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
- DOW - Diocese of Westminster
  - PAR - Parishes

Repository	Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No	AAW/DOW/PAR/149
Title	Osterley, St Vincent de Paul
Level	Series
Description	The Parish of Osterley was founded in 1934. The new church was completed in 2004 and consecrated on 24th September 2005. There was limited provision for Mass in the Osterley area up to the 1930s, although the French Vincentian community and Medical Mission Sisters offered some facilities. Before his death in 1929, Fr Eric Green, parish priest of Isleworth proposed the development of a site on the corner of Borough Road and College Road. In time this was deemed too cramped and land was purchased from the Vincentians between their house and Spring Grove Road. The architect appointed was T. H. B. Scott, who was responsible for the design of many churches in the Diocese. The church was completed in July 1933, having cost £3,000, and was opened on 7 January 1934 as chapel of ease within Isleworth parish. It soon became an independent parish, and a presbytery was built in 1937, from designs by E. J. Walters.The church was designed like a parish hall, which is what it was intended to be after the building of a permanent church. This, however, would take another seventy years. Moves were made in the 1980s and designs submitted in 1985 by Gerald Murphy of Burles, Newton & Partners. Eventually designs by Jos Townend of Didsbury, Manchester, made in 2002, were selected after a limited competition of six architects and the church was built in 2004-05. The original church is now the parish hall running along Witham Road. The new church is polygonal, and has a tower over the sanctuary. This was originally described on the architectural plans as a bell-tower but no bell has ever been installed. The gilded iron cross surmounting the tower came from the former St Vincent’s Orphanage at Mill Hill (information from Chris Fanning). Fittings of note include the crucifix in the sanctuary, by Sr Bernadette Crook, a fine piece inspired by early medieval work. She also painted the two panels on either side of the tabernacle, depicting the Annunciation and the Harrowing of Hell.

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