Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, located on Duke Street in Westminster, was built between 1888 and 1891 by Alfred Waterhouse as a Congregational Church. It is a red brick building with extensive buff terracotta dressings (Burmantofts) and tiled roofs, designed in a Carolingian Romanesque style. The building occupies a corner site between Binney and Duke Streets.

The design is characterised by a rectangular ground floor surmounted by an elliptical auditorium. The west front, facing Duke Street, features a tripartite symmetry broken by a corner tower with a steeple and a gable/ventilation turret to the left. A triple-arcaded porch in antis is accessed by a flight of steps, above which are tall, narrow round-arched lancets with inscribed details, and an elaborated gable with arcaded machicolations. The tower has arcaded screens, an octagonal bell stage within a square structure, pinnacled corner buttresses and a spire with gablets. There are coupled gabled doorways at the head of the steps on the Binney Street/Weighhouse Street corner, with a gabled dormer in the ground storey parapet. The elliptical auditorium has a steep, hipped roof with an iron ridge cresting.

Internally, the ground floor is rectangular, while the elliptical shape is reflected in the horseshoe gallery, upper walls, and ceiling. The walls are glazed brick, and there are four structural columns faced in faience. The gallery features simple woodwork. The chancel was sympathetically altered in 1903 by J.J. Burnet, including the installation of an east window with glass by Anning Bell, an east screen wall, and flanking organ cases. Subsequent alterations for the Ukrainian Cathedral included the addition of a confessional by J.F. Bentley (from Westminster Cathedral), the introduction of pews and the removal of the original pulpit.