| BROMPTON | When built in the late 19th century, ____ Oratory was London's largest Catholic church |
| JOSEPHS | Mount Royal attraction, Saint ___ Oratory |
| NUTS | Children's singing game dating to the 19th Century, ___ in May (4) |
| DEPAUL | Chicago school that's the largest Catholic university in the United States |
| PIUS | 19th-century ___ IX was Pope for a record 31 years. (4) |
| KOC | Largest Catholic fraternal org. |
| MEXICOCITY | Capital city, population 21 million, which was called Tenochtitlan when built in 1325 (6,4) |
| INDESTRUCTIBLE | Very durable when built in secret possibly to accommodate duke (14) |
| HOMEMADE | Memo had direction changed when built in-house (8) |
| BARROW | Historically within the Furness district of Lancashire, now, after Carlisle, the second largest town in Cumbria; in the late 19th century, the town's steelworks was the world's largest (6) |
| SISTINE | The ____ Chapel is named after the pope for whom it was built, in the late 15th century |
| BLUES | Music that originated in the Deep South of the USA in the late 19th Century (5) |
| BUSTLE | Framework worn at the back below the waist by women in the late 19th century in order to expand a sk |
| PLASMAWR | Elizabethan manor in Conwy, North Wales, built in the late 16th century (4,4) |
| PHOEBE | Satellite of the planet Saturn that was discovered in the late 19th Century (6) |
| LLANELLI | Largest town in Carmarthenshire nicknamed Tinopolis in the late 19th century (8) |
| TOBAGO | Island in the SE Caribbean amalgamated with Trinidad in the late 19th century (6) |
| NEWLYN | Cornish seaside town in Penzance that was home in the late 19th century to a colony of artists who included Walter Langley (6) |
| SUDAN | African state that, led by the religious leader known as The Mahdi, fought Egyptian/British control in the late 19th century (5) |
| DOUNECASTLE | Restored stronghold near Stirling built in the late 14th century ( 5,6) |