Consecration – Cappella Nova
St Dominic’s Priory, London

Walking along Hampstead’s Haverstock Hill past a muted brick facade, you’d never guess that one of the largest churches in London lay behind. Step through the doors and the space of St Dominic’s Priory suddenly opens out into Neo-Gothic splendour: a nave that’s 200ft long and almost 100ft high is flanked by 14 rosary chapels, with the fifteenth and final mystery commemorated in the stained-glass window above the high altar.

Built in 1883, but drawing its architectural outline from the past, St Dominic’s is a natural fit for the music of James MacMillan – the composer whose music emerges out of the traditions of another age. Both the folk music of his Scottish heritage and the plainchant of his Catholic faith are woven through an output that has established him as one of the most popular and prolific composers of liturgical works.