St Thomas Aquinas Church, Ham, Roman Catholic church in Ham, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church is a Roman Catholic church located on Ham Street at the western corner of Ham Common. The building features a notable stained glass window depicting Heavenly Jerusalem and serves as a place for weekly worship and prayer.
The building was originally constructed in 1890 as a school and later converted into a church in 1968. It received formal consecration in 1987, marking its establishment as a permanent place of worship.
The church serves a multilingual congregation through German-language services held alongside English ones. This makes it a meeting place for German-speaking Catholics throughout southwest London.
Regular Mass services take place on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings, with additional rosary sessions in the evenings. The church is situated in a quiet residential area and is easily accessible on foot from nearby transportation.
Before this church was built, local Catholics had to travel outside Ham for worship until a small chapel opened at Beaufort House in 1856. That earlier chapel served as the first place of worship for the growing Catholic community in the area.
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