Wilfred Baines O.S.B was given charge of the district 1986 but lived at St Mary's.

In 1904 a tin mission church was built in the school playground and was opened on 19 June 1904.

During his tenure a new priory (presbytery) was built on Rhodes Street which was completed on 11 January 1912 at a cost of £1,557.

This was then followed by a new church which was formally opened on 11 July 1915 by Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster.

[1] The High Altar was consecrated on 27 February 1927 by Archbishop Frederick Keating and had been built by Italian workmen.