See inside St Mary’s Cadogan Street

A couple of blocks away from Chelsea’s posh shops is a large Catholic church that owes its origins to one of the earliest post-reformation Catholic chapels in the country.The chapel wasn’t on the same site as the church, but a couple of streets away, roughly where Cadogan Gardens currently stands. It was built by the Abbé Jean Voyaux de Franous, who fled the Terror that swept France after French Revolution and arrived in London in 1793. When he arrived he was charged with the