Visiting Our Lady of the Rosary and St Patrick, Walthamstow

This bricky mass of a Catholic church has been in this part of Walthamstow ever since the very first houses were built here.From the street, it looks as if the church was built at an odd angle, but that’s because the ancient Blackhorse Road is very curvy and you’re standing on one of the curves. The housing that developed around here in the late 1890s is in regimented lines, and the church actually sits in a straight line with the housing.
The Catholic church was one of three added a