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Roman Catholic church in West Sussex, England
Church
The Church of St Mary of the Angels, Worthing , is in
and the Worthing deanery.
History The Church of St Mary of the Angels was opened by Thomas Grant , Roman Catholic bishop of Southwark , the first local Roman Catholic bishop since the Reformation .[citation needed
The church was built on land bought by Thomas Gaisford, owner of Offington Hall in Broadwater . Previously Gaisford had allowed the new chapel he had built at Offington Hall to be used by the public from 1859. Gaisford had previously married the Catholic Lady Emily St Lawrence, daughter of Thomas St Lawrence, 3rd Earl of Howth and Lady Emily de Burgh. The church was the first place of Catholic worship in Worthing.[citation needed
The church was built with the Our Lady of Sion convent adjacent to the church. The convent is run by the
Sisters of Sion, who also founded the nearby independent school
Our Lady of Sion School . The church lies at the corner of Richmond Road and Crescent Road, close to the triumphal arch of
Park Crescent .
[1] Architecture Originally designed by
References External links
Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton
Churches Arundel Cathedral - Cathedral Church of Our Lady and St Philip HowardSt Peter's Church, Aldrington St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bexhill-on-Sea Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Bognor Regis St John the Baptist's Church, Brighton St Mary Magdalen's Church, Brighton St Joseph's Church, Brighton St Wilfrid's Church, Burgess Hill St Tarcisius Church, Camberley Sacred Heart Church, Caterham St Richard of Chichester Church, Chichester St Teresa of Avila Church, Chiddingfold Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley St Joseph's Church, Dorking St Anthony and St George Church, Duncton Our Lady and St Peter's Church, East Grinstead Our Lady of Ransom Church, Eastbourne St John of Rochester Church, Egham Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Englefield Green St Joan of Arc's Church, Farnham St Edmund Church, Godalming English Martyrs Church, Goring-by-Sea St Wilfrid's Church, Hailsham Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Haslemere St Mary Star of the Sea Church, Hastings Corpus Christi Church, Henfield St John the Evangelist Church, Heron's Ghyll St Anselm Church, Hindhead Church of the Sacred Heart, Hove Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead St Bernard's Church, Lingfield St Catherine's Church, Littlehampton Church of the Divine Motherhood and St Francis of Assisi, Midhurst All Saints Church, Oxted Sacred Heart Church, Petworth St George's Church, Polegate St Mary's Church, Preston Park St Anthony of Viareggio Church, Rose Green St Joseph Church, Rustington St Anthony of Padua Church, Rye Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation Church of St Thomas More, Seaford St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea St Richard of Chichester Church, Slindon Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea St Edward the Confessor Church, Sutton Park Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri Church, Uckfield St Ambrose Church, Warlingham St Dunstan's Church, Woking St Mary of the Angels, Worthing
