St Mary's Catholic Church, West Croydon

St Mary’s church is a beautiful Roman Catholic Church, centrally located in West Croydon area, serving over two thousand regular parishioners every week! I don’t think there’s any church around here which gets jam packed (it attracts a thousand parishioners, many will stand patiently as pews gets occupied during weekend masses during Sunday masses!).

Built over 150 years, the church is very well maintained and looked after. Its interiors are quite appealing with plenty of natural lighting (church boasts ample electric lighting too, huge halogen lights arranged on the ceiling), pews arranged in four columns with ample seating, carpeted with maroon and red coloured carpets which are always inviting. You can see a gorgeously arranged altar and a tabernacle on a high place, always lit well and arranged with beautiful flowers. The ceilings are quite high with octagonal columns and ancient window panes.

It celebrates 6 masses on a Sunday, all these masses are served by excellent and varied choirs ranging from Children’s, young adults, Ugandan, Philippino, Malayalam and English and Latin too. Recently they’ve introduced Male Voice Choir on a last Sunday of each month. The clergy, music ministry are very warm in welcoming everyone. I’m a regular here, so my review might be biased, however I do ask you to visit once and find out for yourself!

The teachers and students are 8n the church also attached to this school and are very interested in the locality they're living in and are very nice gathering in St Mary's Catholic church in all that they do..

Fantastic place to worship.A big plus is their is parking for disabled and for the Parishioners. There are several masses too. I love worshiping here. Everyone is made welcome.

Grateful that the church opens early. It's a good place to visit Jesus in the Tabernacle. He offers Refuge and Solace.Thank you Jesus, praise to you Jesus.

Very welcoming Church and left feeling spiritual fulfilled.

I love that they have a lot masses on Sunday.

There for the hall hire. Building is lovely modern clean and very useful if holding an event such a meeting, conference and gathering.

Very solemn and all the parishioners we met there are warm and kind.