The church was completed in 1933, and was under the authority of the Missionary Fathers of Scheut in Belgium until it came under the Catholic Diocese of Westminster in 1982.
[1] The church is the site for the English shrine to Our Lady of Hal, a medieval statue believed to be miraculous, in Halle, Belgium.
On either side of the central section are single bays with plain rectangular windows beneath a steep pitched roof with large dormers.
[5] This area was refurbished and extended in about 2005 to include self-contained accommodation for six priests and parish administration offices and community facilities including a large Function Room built over a little-used courtyard at the building's rear which connects with the main church building.
[7] In the three arches over the main entrance are decorative mosaics; the one in the centre depicts Our Lady of Hal, flanked by shields of arms.