The Butter Tower

In 1515 the southern tower of Rouen’s Notre Dame cathedral was completed. It was called the “Butter Tower” because the people who contributed the money for its construction were in return given dispensation to eat butter during Lent.

The Brompton Oratory

The Brompton Oratory is a massive baroque Roman Catholic church, built 1878–84 to the design of Herbert Gribble (1847–94). It immediately played an important role in the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism, as London's largest and main place of worship until the opening of *Westminster Cathedral in 1903.