London - St Etheldreda's RC Church, Ely Place, Holborn - postcard c.1930s

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• Picture / Image:  Ancient Church of the Bishops of Ely 1252-1290 St Etheldreda's Church, Ely Place, London EC1 - this is a Roman Catholic Church between Ely Place and Hatton Garden in the Lonon Borough of Camden just outside of the City of London - possibly a real photo type
• Publisher:  maybe the church as it has an information sticker on the back
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St Etheldreda's Church is located in Ely Place, off Charterhouse Street, Holborn, London. It is dedicated to Æthelthryth, or Etheldreda, an Anglo-Saxon saint who founded the monastery at Ely in 673. The building was the chapel of the London residence of the Bishops of Ely.

The chapel was purchased in 1873 and opened as a Roman Catholic church in 1878. It is one of the oldest Roman Catholic church buildings in England, and one of only two surviving buildings in London dating from Edward I's reign. It consists of a chapel, or Upper Church, and a crypt, or undercroft.

St Etheldreda's is active to this day and often used for Masses, baptisms, weddings, and funerals.

Because Etheldreda was often invoked for help with infections of the throat, the Blessing of the Throats is held annually at the chapel.

The Catholic chapel at the United States Military Academy, West Point, is modelled on St Etheldreda's.

In 1820 it was taken over by the National Society for the Education of the Poor who hoped to convert the Catholic Irish immigrants then settling in the area. A short time later the church closed.

In 1836, Ely Chapel was reopened by the Reverend Alexander D'Arblay (son of Fanny Burney) as a place of Anglican worship but he died the following year. In 1843, the church was taken over by Welsh Anglicans with services celebrated in the Welsh language.^[1] The chapel was put up for auction in 1873 and purchased for £5,400 by the Roman Catholic convert Father William Lockhart of the Rosminian order.

Under Father Lockhardt's direction, the crypt and upper church were restored to their original 13th century designs. John Francis Bentley designed a choir screen incorporating a confessional, an organ and a choir gallery. The royal coat of arms, added during the reign of Charles I, was removed to the cloister. The church received a relic from the Duke of Norfolk: a piece of St Etheldreda's hand which is now kept in a jewel cask to the right of the high altar.

The restoration work was completed in 1878 and a Roman Catholic Mass was celebrated in St Ethelreda's for the first time in over 200 years. The upper church was reopened in 1879 on the Feast of St Etheldreda (23 June).

For many years, St Etheldreda's church was the oldest Roman Catholic church building in England. However, the oldest building is now the church of Ss Leonard & Mary in Malton, North Yorkshire. That church, built in about 1180 as a chapel of ease of the Gilbertine Priory in Old Malton, was gifted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1971.

type=real photographic (rp)

london borough=camden

period=inter-war (1918-39)

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)