[1] On 26 March 1937, a Fr Denis Flynn applied for permission to build a Catholic church in Woodside, Glasgow.

[4] The church design is inspired by the Italian Romanesque style with basilica layout.

While the exterior is made of brick, it is built over a concrete portal frame and has a mansard roof.

The church's Stations of the Cross were painted by Hugh Adam Crawford and came from the Catholic Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland.

The Holy Ghost Fathers who went to the south side of the city to be near the Queen Elizabeth University Teaching Hospital of which they also serve as chaplains.