[2] The sandstone Gothic Revival building was built for the congregation and was opened on 6 October 1882[2] to a design adapted by Archibald Thomson from an original version by Sloan & Balderston in 1822.

A Ukrainian diaspora community arrived in England, Scotland, and Wales after World War II.

It included former veterans of the SS Division Galicia, but also many other anti-communist civilian refugees who arrived from displaced persons camps in West Germany as part of the European Voluntary Workers labour scheme.

[4] The local Ukrainian community "in work and finance, supported the project, to transform the interior of the building into a beautiful Catholic church, with a large icon of Saint Andrew over the main altar.

"[citation needed] In 1983, in advance of the 1988 celebration of 1,000 years of Catholicism in Ukraine, the Church was refurbished,[5] including a new wooden belfry and steeple in an Eastern Catholic style and ornamental ironwork on the perimeter which includes the tryzub Coat of arms of Ukraine.