This was to be used for their own services, but included a chantry of two priests to sing daily Mass for the royal family.

The church was built as a guild chapel and through various enlargements and endowments was raised to collegiate status.

A wall was discovered in 1875 running north and south through the middle of the chancel, which is thought to have been the east wall of the first guild chapel, while bases of two piers, near the eastern tower were thought by Sir Gilbert Scott to belong to the same early chapel which was dedicated on 6 May 1350.

During the English Civil War it was a prison for Scottish rebels captured after the Battle of Preston.

The south chapel has a reredos by Sir Ninian Comper with a central crucifixion group.

[7] The Rector of the parish (Fr Dexter Bracey) is also the Bishop's representative of The Society in the Diocese of Coventry.