Fire in the old church, 1962

When Father Clancy came he undertook the task of building a new Church, the foundation stone of which was laid in April 1962. The church was completed and the first service was Midnight Mass at Christmas Eve 1962. During the building of the new church Mass was celebrated in the Old Church which had been moved and re-erected at the back of the new church site, entrance to which was from Danesbury Crescent. However one Sunday after the evening service in the summer of 1962 the church caught fire and was nearly totally destroyed. Sunday Mass was then held in the school Hall and weekday Mass held in the presbytery. In time the wooden building was repaired and decorated then group meetings and youth club and socials were held there until the hall was vandalized. The Church Hall building was removed and the site was used as a Nursery when the portable classrooms were put-up. When Father David Oakley, came he arranged the decoration and refurbishment of the church ready for the ceremony of the formal consecration of the Church on 28th April 1994.