Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral, dedicated to the Blood of Jesus Christ, is the seat of the Archbishop of Westminster—and it’s also the largest Catholic church in England and Wales. The Archdiocese of Westminster bought this site in 1885, and construction ran from 1895 to 1903 under Cardinal Vaughan’s leadership, with John Francis Bentley as architect. Bentley’s design leans into a 9th-century Christian neo-Byzantine approach, and the cathedral is made almost entirely of brick, described by Sir John Betjeman as “a masterpiece in striped brick and stone” that shows “the good craftsman has no need of steel or concrete.” The building’s scale was planned with real precision: about 54,000 square feet (5,000 square metres), roughly 350 feet long, 156 feet wide, and 90 feet high. Cardinal Vaughan blessed the foundation stone on Saturday morning, 29 June 1895. …

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