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The sun put its hat on this weekend, and after a delicious and vaguely German breakfast by King’s Cross on Saturday I fancied a little canalside wandering. Walking the Regent’s Canal from the new Central Saint Martins all the way to Paddington, I stumbled across the Catholic Apostolic Church in Little Venice (above). It has been over ten years since I popped in to the former Edinburgh outpost of this strange and fascinating denomination, now much reduced in numbers since its apex in the late Victorian period.

This London church is said to be the last active outpost of the CAC, though they still own the cathedralesque Gordon Square church. The architect is John Loughborough Pearson, twenty years after his masterpiece of St Augustine’s, Kilburn (now, I am told, virtually empty compared to its prewar glory days), but here in Maida Vale the detached churchtower was never completed.

Below, a little earlier on, looking toward’s St Mark’s Regents Park.

Published at 7:00 pm on Monday 4 April 2016. Categories: Architecture Great Britain Tags: , .
Comments

From these photos, the first in particular, it is clear that “Little Amsterdam” would be a much more accurate name for this part of London.

— Gousset 17 Apr 2016 10:24 am

Indeed.

I think we could do with more urban canals in London, to be honest.

— Andrew Cusack 18 Apr 2016 11:55 am
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