St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake

St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake
Country England, United Kingdom
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website www.stmarymags.org.uk
Architecture
Architect(s) Gilbert Blount
Style Gothic Revival
Administration
Parish Mortlake
Deanery Mortlake
Diocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Province Southwark
Clergy
Priest(s) Father Richard Whinder

St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its priest is Father Richard Whinder.[1]

The church building, in Gothic Revival style, was designed by Gilbert Blount, architect to the first Archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Wiseman, and dates from 1852.[2][3]

The church's first parish priest, Fr John Wenham, was an Anglican convert from the Oxford Movement[2] who had studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.[4]

Sir Richard and Lady Burton

Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton

The cemetery includes a Grade II* listed[5] tent-shaped mausoleum of Carrara marble and Forest of Dean stone,[5] containing the tombs of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–90) and his wife, Isabel, Lady Burton (1831–96), who designed it;[3] she also erected the memorial stained-glass window to Burton, which is next to the lady chapel in the church.[6]

Sir James Marshall

Main article: Sir James Marshall

Sir James Marshall (1829–89), a British colonial judge who helped the spread of Roman Catholicism in Ghana and Nigeria, is buried in the churchyard cemetery.[2][7][8] His wife Alice (née Young) died in 1926 and is also buried in the churchyard.[8] A memorial plaque inside the church was unveiled on 11 August 1999, 100 years after his death.[9]

The Knights and Ladies of Marshall, a lay association of Ghanaian Catholics, visit the church in Mortlake annually to celebrate a mass in his memory.[2][9]

War graves

The cemetery contains war graves of four service personnel of World War I and two of World War II.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to St Mary Magdalen Church Mortlake". St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "History of the Church". About the Church. St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  3. 1 2 Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1983). The Buildings of England – London 2: South. London: Penguin Books. p. 513. ISBN 0-14-0710-47-7.
  4. ↑ "St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery". Barnes and Mortlake History Society. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  5. 1 2 "Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton, Churchyard of St Mary Magdalen". Historic England. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "About the Church: The Tomb of Sir Richard Burton". St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sir James Marshall". Knights and Ladies of Marshall. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  8. 1 2 Iain MacFarlaine (20 May 2003). "James Marshall". Find a Grave. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  9. 1 2 "About the Church: Other Features". St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mortlake (St. Mary Magdalen) Roman Catholic Churchyard". Cemetery details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  11. ↑ "Mortlake (St. Mary Magdalen) Roman Catholic Churchyard". Casualty war records. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 24 February 2015.

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