London 'actors' church' unveils new high altar

Corpus Christi is being renovated to reflect its role as a centre of Eucharistic devotion

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The church of Corpus Christi in Covent Garden, London, has unveiled a new high altar as part of a major restoration project.

When the church was opened in 1874, Cardinal Henry Manning, the Archbishop of Westminster, said it would be "specifically devoted to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.”

It was the first Catholic church to be named for Corpus Christi – the feast of Christ’s Body and Blood – since the Reformation. The church's construction was intended as reparation for the offences against the Blessed Sacrament committed in England since the 16th century.

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