Saint Charles Borromeo Church is a Roman Catholic church on Ogle Street in the Diocese of Westminster in London, England. It is named after Charles Borromeo, a 16th-century Italian saint.
On the outside it is Gothic Revival style; the architect was Samuel Joseph Nicholl, in partnership with T. J. Willson. The church was built in 1862âÂÂ63 on anonymously donated land and cost ã4,000 (). The builders were Messrs Patman and Fotheringham. It was opened by Cardinal Wiseman on 20 May 1863.
John Francis Bentley added a reredos, a high altar and communion rails in 1870âÂÂ73. The reredos, which is thirty feet high, has two tiers of saints painted on slate by Nathaniel Westlake. The frontal for the Lady Chapel altar was added in 1879.
The reredos in the Sacred Heart chapel, designed by Nicholl, was added in 1902, with four angels in niches holding the instruments of the Passion; in the central niche is a statue of the Sacred Heart by Theodore Phyffers (1821âÂÂ1876), a Belgian-born sculptor working in London.
When the lease expired, the church survived because Madame Meschini and her son Arturo purchased the land and donated it to the Westminster diocese. The church was consecrated on 4 September 1921. It survived being damaged in the war, and the interior was restored in 1957âÂÂ63 and again in 1978âÂÂ80, when the reredos was restored and a large forward altar, by Michael Anderson, installed. The octagonal immersion font, designed by Michael Anderson in collaboration with Mattia del Prete and Antonio Incognito of Rome, was installed in the nave in 1984.
There are four stained glass windows in the south aisle of Saints Patrick, Margaret, Cecilia (1898) and Thomas of Canterbury.
At least 2 pipe organs were recorded in the church's history.
Choir disbanded by 1912, then re-established in 1915
Choir formed of both men and women for the first time
Choir disbanded during WWII, re-established afterwards
Choir disbanded for the 3rd time in 1973
Choir re-established in 2025