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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/78
Title	Harrow-on-the-Hill, Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury
Level	Series
Description	The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Henry Manning, was an old boy of Harrow School,and had a special affection for the area of Harrow-on-the-Hill and its association with St. Thomas Becket. Manning authorised the building of a small, iron Chapel on the 6th May 1873 on a site in Roxborough Road and made a donation towards the cost. The needs of the local Catholic Community were served here until the building of the present Church. One of the first priests, Fr Joseph Redman DD, introduced to Harrow the nuns of the Third order of St Dominic from Belgium, at the request of Cardinal Mannaing. On 4th May 1894, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Herbert Vaughan laid and blessed the foundation stone for a new church building, the total cost of which was around £3,000. It was at this time that the Presbytery was built and what was to become St Anselm's School was begun by the incument priest, Fr George Augustine Graham, who invited nuns of the Third Order of St Francis to start a small private school in Roxborough Park and teach around 20 children of the the parish in the Sacristy hut behind the new church. Architecturally, the style of the Church is in the manner of the English Perpendicular of the 12th – 14th centuries. During the 20th century, the parish expanded rapidly so the church buildings were expanded and improved to accommodate the growing congregation. By the 1960s, the church building was suffering from serious subsidence and the decision was taken in 1974 to carry out remdeial works and build new foundations for the church. Following these repairs, the church re-opened in 1976

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