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The Church of St. Laurence is a Roman Catholic parish church in Cambridge, UK. It is part of the Diocese of East Anglia within the Province of Westminster. It is part of the Cambridge Deanery and is one of the three parishes serving the city of Cambridge, the other two being Our Lady and the English Martyrs and St. Philip Howard. ==History of the parish and church== The first permanent post Reformation Roman Catholic church in Cambridge was Our Lady and the English Martyrs opened and consecrated on 8 October 1890. The Roman Catholic population continued to grow and the opening of a Carmelite convent at 104-106 Chesterton Road in 1923 provided a new place of worship on the Northern side of the town. In 1937 the Carmelite sisters moved to a quieter site at Waterbeach, into a building which, when vacated in the early 1970s, became the Waterbeach Lodge residential home for the elderly. Following the departure of the Carmelites from Cambridge, the need for a new parish gradually became apparent and within a year there was a significant donation of £250 towards establishing a new mass centre or church for Roman Catholics in Chesterton.〔Margaret Plumb, Chp 19 St Laurence's Church, in Nicholas Rogers (ed) Catholics in Cambridge, Gracewing 2003, ISBN 0852445687, 210-214, p.210〕 In the years immediately after the Carmelite sisters left, masses were said in private houses and informal venues until a small corrugated iron church was erected on the High Street in Chesterton. In 1947 this became the new Parish of St Laurence's, with the presbytery for the parish priest located at 1 Ferry Lane.〔Margaret Plumb, Chp 19 St Laurence's Church, in Nicholas Rogers (ed) Catholics in Cambridge, Gracewing 2003, ISBN 0852445687, 210-214, p.212〕 With the arrival of the Rev. Patrick Oates in 1951, efforts to fund raise and build a permanent church were accelerated.〔(St Laurence's Parish Information Page (retrieved 28 March 2013) )〕 On 8 March 1958 Bishop Parker laid the foundation stone on the Milton Road site and on 24 August 1958 the new church was formally blessed and dedicated.〔Margaret Plumb, Chp 19 St Laurence's Church, in Nicholas Rogers (ed) Catholics in Cambridge, Gracewing 2003, ISBN 0852445687, 210-214, p.212〕 The old corrugated iron church building was then moved to Fen Ditton, to become the church of St Vincent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St Laurence's Church, Cambridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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