Saint George's Cathedral
In Saint George’s Cathedral, the most striking detail is its origin as a 1848-built house of worship designed by Augustus Pugin in decorated Gothic style, with yellow stock brick and Portland stone dressings. The Metropolis Cathedral Church of St George, Southwark, serves as the seat of the Archbishop of Southwark and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Province of Southwark, which covers all of London south of the Thames and extends to Kent and north Surrey. The building, opened by Bishop Wiseman, became a cathedral in 1852, shortly after the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales, making it one of the first four Catholic churches in the country to attain cathedral status since the Reformation. It stands opposite the Imperial War Museum on Lambeth Road, at the corner with St George’s Road, with CAFOD’s headquarters and a nearby primary school on Westminster Bridge Road. …
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