Hello listers, below is the beginning of the pages for the AI website that deal with the churches and places of worship in the UK, both historically and present day. Please please, see if you can add anything to this list. I'm particularly keen to add details of what registers exist and where they are kept,and of course if there are any transcriptions, or if they're included in the IGI, so if you have any ideas, please let me know. In many towns and cities, there isn't a specific Italian church or mission, and it would be good to add details of which Roman Catholic churches the Italian communities tended to use, so if you've found more than a handful of Italians in any register, please also let me know. I can't seem to find anything for Wales. Surely Cardiff, Swansea etc had Italian communities? All help gratefully received. And if there's anyone out there who wants to take this on as a little research project, I'd be very happy to hand it over while I work on other things. Elaine ITALIAN CHURCHES IN THE UK BEDFORD St. Francis Cabrini (Italian Church) 10 Woburn Road, Bedford MK40 1EG Established in 1965 (Where did the Bedford Italian community worship before this?) Scalabrini Fathers (CS) Rev Giuseppe Bortolazzo (Superior), Rev Ettore Zentile (01234) 359515 Fax: (01234) 340626 The community holds a Festa on the last Sunday of August. LONDON St Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell Road, ECI St Peter's was built as an Italian Church in 1864, and is the only Italian church to have national parish status. History of St Peter's can be found at http://www.stpeters-italian-church.org.uk/history1.htm Also on the web but, somewhat hard to find, is a much longer and more detailed article called St Peter's Italian Church In London by Luca Stanca (English translation by Michael Coffey). If you search on Google for it, they have a cached version of the PDF file that you can read. Chiesa del Redentore, Brixton Road 'In December 1993, the Italian Centro Scalabrini, in South London, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The Centro Scalabrini, and Italian religious-cum-social club, is part of the Scalabrini congregation, an Italian missionary order founded in 1887 to minister mainly to Italian emigrants and their descendants around the world. Aside from the administration offices, the building houses the Italian Women's Club, a club for retirees, a youth club, and the Church of the Redeemer (Chiesa del Redentore). The Scalabrinian fathers in London also edit the most widely read Italian newspaper in Britain: La Voce degli Italiani (LV hereafter).' This extract comes from a paper by Anne-Marie Fortier and further details and the full article can be read at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sociology/soc066af.html Royal Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn - used by the Italian community, and many other London Catholics, before St Peter's was built. 'But before Westminster Cathedral was thought of (it was first used on St. Joseph's Day in 1903) the Red Mass was celebrated at the Old Sardinian Chapel, attended by the few Catholic judges and counsel attached to the English courts, though most of these Catholic jurists were Irish and not English. The Sardinian Chapel, which used to stand in Lincoln's Inn Fields, was formerly the Embassy Chapel of the King of Sardinia. It was an important link with history, since it was the only Chapel in London where Mass was allowed to be celebrated in penal days.' from Henry Watts: America (October 3, 1942). To read more about the Red Mass, click here http://www.thomas-more-ottawa.org/history.html 'The Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields, which has registers dating from 1729, and which is said to have been founded in 1648, was doubled in size. At one time in the eighteenth century seven priests were attached to it, serving a Catholic population of nearly 14,000; in 1814 there was a Catholic population of 7000 served by four or five priests. In 1799 Bishop Douglass took over the lease of the chapel and converted the ambassador's house into a presbytery, the mission being henceforward supported by the congregation. The old church, built by Inigo Jones and enlarged by Sir Christopher Wren, was standing until 1909, when it had to be abandoned to make room for the London County Council improvements in connection with the new highway Kingsway, and the present church was built a short distance off.' >From the New Advent online Catholic Encylopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592c.htm 'Venetian and Neapolitan Governments also maintained chapels where public worship was carried out more or less attractively during the eighteenth century.' http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15592c.htm Three small catholic chapels were opened in Clerkenwell to accommodate the burgeoning immigrant Catholic population, which included Irish as well as Italians, before St Peter's was built: St Peter and Paul in Rosoman Street (now Amwell St) 1847 (chuch still survives) St Brigid's in Baldwin Gardens in 1850 The Holy Family Chapel in Saffron Hill in 1854 MANCHESTER Although there is no specifically Italian church in the city, St Michael's was traditionally used by the Italian community, and sponsored the annual Whit Walk. NOTTINGHAM There is an Italian mission here. PETERBOROUGH San Giuseppe, nr Gladstone Street. Established in 1962. (This information comes from Terri Colpi's book, The Italian Factor 1991, but I have been unable to find a current address for a church of this name.) Peterborough, Cambs 6 (+) St. Anthony's Address: 3, Fairfield Road, Fletton, PE2 8BD Phone: (01733) 565527 Clergy: Italian Mission Scalabrini Fathers (C.S) Rev. Giovanni Alessi SCOTLAND There was no special place of worship, and so you may need to check the records of the nearest Roman Catholic church. GLASGOW Many Italians were concentrated in the Garnet Hill area and so worshipped at St Aloysius.

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