Thursday, December 27, 2007

Choir window

Choir window, church of the Immaculate Conception, seen from Mount Street Gardens, Mount Street, Mayfair, London

Choir window
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Seen from Mount Street Gardens
Mount Street, Mayfair
London, September 2006

“The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, also known as Farm Street Church, is a Catholic parish church run by the Society of Jesus in Mayfair, Central London, England. Its main entrance is in Farm Street, though it can also be accessed from the adjacent Mount Street Gardens. Sir Simon Jenkins, in his book England's Thousand Best Churches, describes the church as ‘Gothic Revival at its most sumptuous’. In the 1840s, when the Jesuits first began looking for a location for their London church, they found the site in the mews of a back street. The name ‘Farm Street’ derives from 'Hay Hill Farm' which, in the eighteenth century, extended from Hill Street eastward beyond Berkeley Square. In 1843, Pope Gregory XVI received a petition from English Catholics for permission to erect a Jesuit Church in London and plans were accepted.” (Church of the Immaculate Conception, Wikipedia)

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