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Brompton Oratory

Full-blown Italian baroque in South Kensington, with a choir and orchestra performing Mass settings as liturgy.

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Photo by Sarah Stierch, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Sacred London.

The Oratory does something almost nowhere else in Britain does: it performs the great orchestral Mass settings - Mozart, Haydn, Schubert - during the actual Mass they were written for, with choir and players in the gallery, on Sunday mornings through much of the year.

The building was finished in 1884 in a style deliberately imported wholesale from Rome, and the marble, the gilding and the very large scale are all part of why the music sounds the way it does in here. Attending is free; it is a service, not a concert, and behaves like one.

Where
Brompton Road, SW7 2RP
Nearest station
South Kensington · 5 min walk

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Open daily for prayer and Mass; the Oratory lists its times on its own site.

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