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Brompton Oratory

Visitors to the Brompton Oratory find a Catholic church in the neo-Baroque style, with a three-bay nave, transept, an apsidal chancel and a dome over the crossing, notable for its use of Devon marble and Italian Baroque sculptures such as The Twelve Apostles by Giuseppe Mazzuoli and the altar of the Virgin with works by Tommaso Rues. Inside, visitors can admire chapels decorated with mosaics, plasterwork and woodwork, as well as a notable library and a collection of elaborate vestments and liturgical objects. The church is known for its liturgical music, with three choirs taking part in religious services, and it holds daily Mass in different forms of the Catholic rite.

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