Church of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory

Warwick Street

Dedicated to the Life of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Catholic population in the UK during the 1760s

In 1760, when Warwick Street parish functioned as the chapel of the Portuguese Embassy, there were only an estimated 60,000 Catholics in the whole of England, of which about 20,000 lived in London. Warwick Street parish was a focus of Catholic activity.