Tribute to hanged Catholics

A MONUMENT to the hundreds of Catholics executed for their faith is to be built in the heart of London.

Consultations are under way to erect a memorial on the former site of the Tyburn gallows at the western end of Oxford Street.

Between 1535 and 1679 nearly 400 Catholics were executed there. The Vatican has recognised 105 as martyrs and some have been canonised as saints.

Since the Fifties the site has been marked by a stone roundel in a traffic island at the junction of Edgware Road and Bayswater Road. Westminster council now wants a more fitting memorial.