Photo: londondrum.comUseful things to know before your visit
Address: Brompton Oratory, 215 Brompton Road, South Kensington SW7 2RP. Telephone: 0207 808 0900. Website: bromptonoratory.co.uk
How much do the tickets cost?
The Brompton Oratory is free.
What are the opening hours?
Opening times fare usually 7am to 7pm (Mon-Sat); 8am to 8pm (Sun).
How much time do you need?
A typical visit to the Brompton Oratory takes 20 minutes.
Which buses go to the Brompton Oratory?
Bus routes 14, 74, 414 and C1 all stop close by.
Which is the closest train station?
The nearest station is South Kensington, which connects with the Circle District and Piccadilly lines. You can walk the ⅓ mile to the Brompton Oratory in about 6 minutes.
Which other attractions are nearby?
These attractions are all within 15 minutes walk of the Brompton Oratory: Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Harrods, Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial.
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Brompton Oratory is the most beautiful church in London. If there ever comes a time in your life when you need to find God then this is first place you should start looking.
Lord knows how much money they must have lavished on it. There’s gold, for sure, but that’s not what makes it memorable. A wonderful smell of incense pervades the place like it’s seeping out of the stone and you feel like you’re sitting inside a sea storm. Imagine a grey sky rolling in with rumbling thunder and enough wind and rain to end the world… that’s the colour of this place.
Photo: londondrum.comWear-worn faces stare down at you everywhere you look, from old Italian statues and sculptures, mosaics and paintings – including a 17th-century save from Siena Cathedral – and the magnificent altar from San Domenico Brescia.
Photo: londondrum.comThe only light inside is what creeps in through the high windows, and the only sound around is a quiet rumble like distant traffic – it’s a bit like those pigeons that fly around Waterloo station and can’t get out. It must have blown down the road and come straight in through the letterbox. I’m thinking of having a quiet cough just to leave my mark on the place. If you make a noise in here then it will settle like dust for a hundred years.
I’m actually tempted to sit here for half an hour and wait for the mass – that’s how beautiful this building is. It can almost convert you on its own.
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Patrick mc clure Hi Craig. I visited brompton oratory last week, what a beautiful church and thanks to your brilliant review I would never have known about this great church. Yours patrick. (reply)
Simon Do you have the mass times? (reply)
↳Craig Hi Simon. They’re got a list of mass times on the Brompton Oratory website – bromptonoratory.co.uk/regular-mass-service-times (reply)
Will Hi, do you have to pay to go inside like St. Pauls. (reply)
↳Craig Hi Will. No, it’s free to look inside. (reply)
Irene I’m lucky enough to have this as my local church and it still thrills me to walk inside after thirty years. (reply)
Tina This is such a wonderful place to sit quietly and reflect. (reply)
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