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Repository	Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster
Ref No	AAW/DOW/PAR/69
Title	Hammersmith, St Augustine
Level	Series
Description	The parish of Hammersmith was founded in 1903 by Augustinian friars from Hoxton and is still served by the Order based in the adjacent Priory of St Augustine. The friars had been asked by Cardinal Vaughan to fill a missionary gap in West Kensington. Prior Raleigh and Fr Condon set up a temporary presbytery and chapel in a house at 71 Comeragh Road, and the Mission formally opened here on Easter Sunday 1903. The present site was then acquired and a temporary iron church, accommodating 250 people, opened on 16 September 1903. The Priory of St Augustine, Hammersmith, was ready for occupation in 1914. Attention then turned to building the new church, with the foundation stone being laid in March 1915 and the formal opening taking place on 14 October the following year. The architect was Robert Leabon Curtis. The church was consecrated on 20 May 1933. The Lady Chapel was given a new altar and renewed marble décor in 1960 by D. Plaskett Marshall. At the same time its apse was opened to a new east nave constructed as part of the extensive parochial buildings but, owing to a declining congregation, the apse wall was restored in 1988 and the east nave put to other uses. The altar, ambo and font of Carrara marble were installed in 1988 during the renovations undertaken by the Arvanitakis Partnership.

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