Denomination Roman Catholic Years built 1852 Parish Mortlake Architect Gilbert Blount | Website www.stmarymags.org.uk Deanery Mortlake Year built 1852 | |
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Location 61 North Worple Way, Mortlake, London SW14 8PR Country England, United Kingdom Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Diocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark Burials Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Edith Emma Cooper Similar Our Lady Queen of Peace Ch, Catholic Church of St Osmun, St Mary the Virgin Mortlake, St Thomas Aquinas Church, St Francis de Sales - Hampton | ||
St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its priest is Father Richard Whinder.
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The church building, in Gothic Revival style, was designed by Gilbert Blount, architect to the first Archbishop of Westminster, Nicholas Wiseman, and dates from 1852.
The church's first parish priest, Fr John Wenham, was an Anglican convert from the Oxford Movement who had studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Sir Richard and Lady Burton
The cemetery includes a Grade II* listed tent-shaped mausoleum of Carrara marble and Forest of Dean stone, containing the tombs of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton (1821–90) and his wife, Isabel, Lady Burton (1831–96), who designed it; she also erected the memorial stained-glass window to Burton, which is next to the lady chapel in the church.
Sir James Marshall
Sir James Marshall (1829–89), a British colonial judge who helped the spread of Roman Catholicism in Ghana and Nigeria, is buried in the churchyard cemetery. His wife Alice (née Young) died in 1926 and is also buried in the churchyard. A memorial plaque inside the church was unveiled on 11 August 1999, 100 years after his death.
The Knights and Ladies of Marshall, a lay association of Ghanaian Catholics, visit the church in Mortlake annually to celebrate a mass in his memory.
War graves
The cemetery contains war graves of four service personnel of World War I and two of World War II.