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Article: Holy war: the battle of St Stephen's
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 6, 1996
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"Where can I find St Stephen's Church?" I ask an efficient
looking Kensington matriarch swaddled against the May morning chill
in a Puffa jacket and Scotch House kilt. "Oh, St Stephen's," she
barks. "Bang opposite the Mongolian Barbeque in Gloucester Road." I
thank her, patting the impatient foxhounds circling her blue
court-heeled shoes. She smiles condescendingly. Then a look of
patrician disdain crosses her steely visage. "You're not a . . .
Carth'lick are you?", as if to say Mongolian.
It seems strange that a Catholic should be taken for a dangerous
exotic. But then St Stephen's, Kensington, is a pretty rum church,
having been split since Easter between Roman Catholic and Anglican,
or ...