Our Church in Hoxton

Step inside our church on Hoxton Square, an oasis of calm tucked away in cutting edge cool Shoreditch. 

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Statues of St Augustine and St Monica stand to the left and right of the high altar, waiting to greet all visitors.

 

A grade II listed 19th century church built between 1864 - 1866, our building is an example of Edward Welby Pugin's work.   

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The outside of the church is distinctive of a typical Pugin design.  The description on historicengland.org.uk is apt - "... a rare surviving composition of church, school and priory by an important architect who here produced a cheap building that nevertheless has considerable distinction"

 

To put the quote into context, the Pugin Society estimated that the cost of a typical unendowed urban church ranged between £3000 - £10000, depending the size and date of building. In contrast, the Cobh Cathedral, begun in 1867, cost £235000 by the time it was completed in 1915.

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St Monica's Team 

St Monica's is under the care of the Augustinian order of the Province of England and Scotland.

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Fr Gabriel Tumba Hassan, OSA is Parish Priest at St Monica's and School Chaplain at St Monica's Catholic Primary School Hoxton.

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Fr Anthony Zabbey, OSA is the Prior

Fr Jacob Choi, OSA is the Community Bursar and a psychotherapist.

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NEWCOMERS to the Parish are warmly invited to introduce themselves to the team, and to fill in a Parish registration form.