St Patrick's Church, Soho Square
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St Patrick's Church is a large
Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...
parish church in
Soho Square Soho Square is a garden square in Soho, London, hosting since 1954 a ''de facto'' public park leasehold estate, let by the Soho Square Garden Committee to Westminster City Council. It was originally called King Square after Charles II of Engla ...
, London. St Pat's (as it is informally known) was consecrated as a chapel in a building behind Carlisle House on 29 September 1792, one of the first Catholic buildings allowed in Great Britain after the Reformation. The present church building was built between 1891 and 1893, to designs by John Kelly of Leeds, and replaced the earlier and smaller chapel built by Father Arthur O'Leary in the 1790s. The church has an unusual longish shape due to plot constrictions given at that time. The building is constructed out of bricks with a bell-tower. It is Grade II* listed. The main entrance has a Roman-style porch with Corinthian columns. Above the entrance is an inscription: VT CHRISTIANI ITA ET ROMANI SITIS ("Ut christiani ita et romani sitis", i.e. “Be ye Christians as those of the Roman Church”). It is a quotation taken from the writings of St. Patrick. The building was closed for renovation and refurbishment between 28 February 2010 and 31 May 2011.St Patrick's Church Newsletter
Retrieved 5 June 2011. During the renovations, services were held in the nearby Chapel of St Barnabas, at The House of St Barnabas.


Gallery

St Patrick Church Soho Square.jpg, Interior of St Patrick's Church prior to renovation St Patrick's Church Nave, Soho Square, London, UK - Diliff.jpg, Interior following renovation and refurbishment St Patrick's Church Entrance, Soho Square, London, UK - Diliff.jpg, The entrance to the nave


References


Further reading

* Marcantonio, Alfredo
''St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church: Soho Square''
(2021)


External links

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Parish website
{{DEFAULTSORT:SoHo, Saint Patrick Roman Catholic churches in the City of Westminster Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom Grade II* listed churches in the City of Westminster
Saint Patrick Saint Patrick (; or ; ) was a fifth-century Romano-British culture, Romano-British Christian missionary and Archbishop of Armagh, bishop in Gaelic Ireland, Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Irelan ...
Grade II* listed Roman Catholic churches in England Roman Catholic churches completed in 1893