Tyburn Convent

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  • Address
    8 Hyde Park Pl, Hyde Park, W2 2LJ
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  • Phone
    7723 7262
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Marble Arch
  • crypt tours: 10:30 , 15:30 & 17:30 - booking advisable

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Lonely Planet review

One of the buildings of this sorrowful and silent place has the distinction of being the smallest house in London, measuring just over a metre in width. A convent was established here in 1903, close to the site of the Tyburn Tree gallows where many Catholics were executed because of their faith during the 16th century, and which later became a place of Catholic pilgrimage.

The crypt contains the relics of some 105 martyrs, along with paintings commemorating their lives and recording their deaths. A closed order of Benedictine sisters lives here, as they have for more than a century.