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Shrine · United Kingdom

Church of the English Martyrs, Tower Hill

London, United Kingdom

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Why pilgrims come

A sacred place worth the journey.

A living Catholic pilgrimage church in the shadow of the Tower, honoring the English martyrs and preserving the renewed Shrine of Our Lady of Graces.

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The pilgrim’s guide

What makes this visit meaningful

Make this Roman Catholic church the prayerful anchor for a Tower of London martyr pilgrimage. The parish remembers More, Fisher and the wider English martyrs, while its Shrine of Our Lady of Graces revives the memory of a medieval Marian abbey that once stood nearby.

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Catholic prayer near Tower Hill

Place the historic martyr sites within the living sacramental life of a Roman Catholic parish.

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Shrine of Our Lady of Graces

The Lady Chapel commemorates the medieval Abbey of Our Lady of Graces, once a London center of Marian pilgrimage.

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Catholic return to Tower Hill

The parish history remembers the first Mass celebrated on Tower Hill in more than three centuries, on the Annunciation in 1865.

Feasts & celebrations

Feast of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas MoreThe parish stands close to their imprisonment, execution and burial sites.

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