It was first Catholic church to be built in Weston-super-Mare since the Reformation and it is in the Gothic Revival style.

Around 1858, a local convert to Catholicism and lawyer to the Bishop of Clifton, William Clifford, Joseph Ruscombe Poole, bought Westgate House, the current site of the church.

He commissioned the architect Charles F. Hansom to design the church, paid for its construction and provided an annual stipend of £50 for the priest.

The stone that was used to build the church was donated by the owner of the Worlebury Hill quarry, John Hugh Smyth-Pigott.

In 2007, the last resident priest at the church left, he was the retired Bishop of Clifton, Mervyn Alexander.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church was built in 1938 in the Gothic Revival style and cost £4,000.