Farvé was sent to as far as the South Americas to raise funds for the church in which was finally enough in 1956.

The finishing touches of the building were completed in 1856 by Father Allard, with the present-day presbytery built in 1874.

The side windows are fitted with stained glass from the early 2000s with the earliest stained glass from the late 1800s placed above the altar depicting the life of St Francis Xavier, commissioned from Vietnam.

The organ placed on the choir loft was donated in the early 1900s but has since been left in a state of disrepair.

The church originally had one of the most spectacular high altars in the country but was dismantled in the later years and used for the current altar present.A statue of St Francis Xavier and Yajiro, one of his followers has been placed on the right of the church entrance as a donation from the catholics in Japan.