SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Our Gothic church, which is an outstanding example of the work of Victorian architect E.W.Pugin, seats only three hundred,

The church, opened in 1858, is a fine Gothic building with notable stained glass windows, the largest of which is "Doom", erected in 1923, depicting the Last Judgement. In 2000 we added a "Jubilee" window of outstanding design. Parishioners and friends donated over £16,000, enabling us to give £8,000 to five charities depicted in it. 2008 marked the 150th Anniversary of the Church's opening. To commemorate this a new window was commissioned. This window celebrates the life and work of three Redemptorists Saint John Neumann, The Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger  and the Blessed Peter Donders. 

For over one hundred years our church was a devotional chapel with a congregation of local residents and pilgrims from the city who came to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour which had been established in 1866. However, in 1961 with homes having swallowed up the farms and fields around us, Archbishop (later Cardinal) Heenan, asked us to become a parish with all its responsibilities.