• Welcome
  • Sacraments
    • Regular Mass & Service Times
    • Liturgical Calendar
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    • Confession Times
    • Infant Baptism
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    • Confirmation
    • Adult Baptism and Confirmation
    • Marriage
  • Parish
    • Safeguarding
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    • Young Adults' Group (18-35)
    • Youth Group (13-17)
    • Oratory Scout Group
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  • Music
    • Music Staff
    • The Oratory Choirs
    • The Organs
    • L.O.S. Schola Cantorum
    • Monthly Music List
    • October Organ Recitals
    • Supporting the Future
    • Recordings
  • The Oratory
    • The Fathers
    • Funding the Oratory
    • St Philip Neri
    • St John Henry Newman
    • Fr Wilfrid Faber
    • Books of Oratorian Interest
    • Vocations
    • St Raphael's Fund
  • News
    • From The Provost
    • Weekly Parish Newsletter
    • Sat 13 Sept: El Parnaso Hyspano Concert
    • Sat 11 Oct: Rosary Crusade of Reparation
    • Offering
    • Oratory Outreach
    • Unable to get to Mass on Sundays?
    • Gift Aid - Helping the Oratory
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
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The London Oratory

  • Welcome
  • Sacraments
    • Regular Mass & Service Times
    • Liturgical Calendar
    • Mass Intentions
    • Confession Times
    • Infant Baptism
    • First Holy Communion
    • Confirmation
    • Adult Baptism and Confirmation
    • Marriage
  • Parish
    • Safeguarding
    • Parish Boundaries
    • Pilgrimages
    • The Shop
    • Brothers of the Little Oratory
    • Young Adults' Group (18-35)
    • Youth Group (13-17)
    • Oratory Scout Group
    • All Parish Organisations
  • Music
    • Music Staff
    • The Oratory Choirs
    • The Organs
    • L.O.S. Schola Cantorum
    • Monthly Music List
    • October Organ Recitals
    • Supporting the Future
    • Recordings
  • The Oratory
    • The Fathers
    • Funding the Oratory
    • St Philip Neri
    • St John Henry Newman
    • Fr Wilfrid Faber
    • Books of Oratorian Interest
    • Vocations
    • St Raphael's Fund
  • News
    • From The Provost
    • Weekly Parish Newsletter
    • Sat 13 Sept: El Parnaso Hyspano Concert
    • Sat 11 Oct: Rosary Crusade of Reparation
    • Offering
    • Oratory Outreach
    • Unable to get to Mass on Sundays?
    • Gift Aid - Helping the Oratory
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
    • Email Us Directly
    • Directions
    • Map Link
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The High Altar


Originally Herbert Gribble's design for the High Altar included a great baldachino or ciborium.  The High Altar as it is today is however still very impressive standing, as it does, in a sanctuary which is some 70 feet deep. It is ordered for the solemn celebration of the Church's liturgy and has escaped the ravages of some of the re-ordering schemes which followed Vatican II.

The carved choir stalls are inlaid with ivory and together with the elaborately inlaid wooden floor were the gift of Ann, Duchess of Argyll to the first church, completed in 1854. There are two seven-branched candlesticks in the sanctuary. They are modelled on those in the Temple of Jerusalem as pictured on the Arch of Titus. Standing on marble plinths, they were the gift of the Marquis of Bute.

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