St Dominic's Priory Church

St Dominic's Priory Church, Camden, London NW5 4LB showing the east elevation (inset - closeup of notice board)

St Dominic's Priory Church^[1] (formally named "Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic") between Hampstead and Camden Town, London NW5 4LB, is one of the largest Roman Catholic churches in London. The church is a Grade II* listed building.

Location

The church and priory are in Southampton Road just south of Hampstead Heath and close to Belsize Park. The nearest stations are Belsize Park and Chalk Farm tube stations both on the Northern line Edgware branch, and Hampstead Heath railway station and Gospel Oak railway stations on London Overground, all about 15 minutes walk away.

History

The Dominican Friars came to the area in 1861 with a community of Friars in the Priory, a community of Dominican Sisters nearby in Constantine Road and a group of Lay Dominicans who meet each month at the Priory.

The priory was opened in 1867 and the Priory Church dates from 1883. The church was opened largely thanks to Countess Tasker, its great benefactress. The road leading down to the Priory (Tasker Road) was named in her memory.

The Priory Church is still named Our Lady of the Rosary and Saint Dominic, as the current notice board makes clear. During the 1990s the Traditional Catholic Mass (in the Roman Rite, rather than the Dominican Rite) was re-established at St. Dominic's at 11.15 am every Sunday. This was by request of the late Cardinal Hume. It was supported every Sunday by 100 or more people, including choir and servers.

Design

The design is based on the structure of the Rosary prayer. It was built by Charles Alban Buckler (1824-1905), the son of John Chessell Buckler who designed numerous churches of which this was probably his best.^[2]

Community

Both friars and sisters serve a large parish community, with a weekend attendance of about 900 men, women and children. Friars and sisters are also engaged in a wide range of local social activity including hospital, university and school chaplaincy, adult education and third level teaching of theology, scripture and philosophy, publishing, post-graduate study, and preaching. It is also the residence of the Provincial of the Dominican friars in England and Scotland. Next to the church is the RC primary school of St Dominic.

References

↑ St Dominic's Priory official website
↑ Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, p123, accessed 4 March 2016

Coordinates: 51°33′03″N 0°09′26″W / 51.5508°N 0.1572°W / 51.5508; -0.1572

Churches in Camden

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	St George, Bloomsbury St George the Martyr Holborn St Giles in the Fields, St Giles St John-at-Hampstead St Pancras Church

Anglican daughter churches	Christ Church, Hampstead Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury Holy Cross church, St Pancras St Alban the Martyr Holborn St John's Downshire Hill St John the Baptist, Kentish Town St Luke, Kentish Town St Mark, Regents Park St Martin, Gospel Oak St Mary, Primrose Hill St Mary, Somers Town St Michael, Camden Town St Michael, Highgate St Pancras Church St Paul, Camden Town St Saviour, Hampstead St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town St Stephen, Belsize Park

Other denominations	All Saints, Camden Town Danish Church Hillsong Church London Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead St Anne's Roman Catholic Church, Laxton Place St Dominic, Belsize Park St Etheldreda, Holborn St George's Cathedral, St Pancras St John's Chapel, Bedford Row St Mary, Hampstead St Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road

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