The Roman Catholic Parish Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is located in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England.

Casting a tentative shadow over Rye Piece, (a little side-street in the middle of the town), it was built at a time when Catholics were, unfortunately, still viewed with suspicion.

It was a modest, oblong structure built in traditional Victorian redbrick with a small schoolroom running along the west side.

The money to build it was raised by the priest, Fr Pius, not entirely from his sparse congregation but by simply begging all over the country.

So the Catholic community which had first congregated in a disused shop in one of Bedworth's many yards, then a small chapel, finally had its own church, yet with the sanctuary at the west end and opposite to the original.