St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster

The reredos, which is thirty feet high, has two tiers of saints painted on slate by Nathaniel Westlake.

The reredos, designed by Nicholl, in the Sacred Heart chapel was added in 1902, with four angels in niches are holding the instruments of the Passion; in the central niche is a statue of the Sacred Heart by Theodore Phyffers (1821-1876), a Belgian-born sculptor working in London.

When the lease expired the church survived because Madame Meschini and her son Arturo purchased the land and donated it the Westminster diocese.

The octagonal immersion font, designed by Michael Anderson in collaboration with Mattia del Prete and Antonio Incognito of Rome, was installed in the nave in 1984.

There are four stained glass windows in the south aisle of Saints Patrick, Margaret, Cecilia (1898) and Thomas of Canterbury.

Saint Charles Borromeo church
Saint Charles Borromeo church interior