Warwick Street Parish and the Peace of Utrecht

The reason why Catholic Londoners could freely attend Mass at Warwick Street Parish, even during penal times, was the permission granted to access the chapels of the representatives of the Catholic powers under the Peace of Utrecht (1713-15). There were, of course, other embassy chapels in London. Those of the Imperial, French, Sardinian, Spanish and Venetian Embassies were in Hanover Square, Soho, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Ormond Street and Suffolk Street respectively. But the only one of these to survive in anything like its original form and on its original site is Warwick Street Parish.