Pat O’Brien's retirement approached, the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer better known as the Redemptorists were asked by Archbishop Patrick Kelly to take over the Pastoral Care of St. Mary's.
Charles Randall CSsR St Mary's is constructed in red sandstone and has a slate roof.
At the west end are diagonal buttresses, an entrance, and pointed windows containing Geometric tracery.
[2] Inside the church, the high altar and reredos date from 1865, and were probably designed by E. W. Pugin.
[3] The two-manual pipe organ was built by Franklin Lloyd in 1895, and is situated in a gallery on the north wall of the church at the west end.
St Benedict and Scholastica are pictured below and included because of the Parish being founded by Benedictines.
He carried out windows for various churches in Brussels, Bruges, Amsterdam and elsewhere, and his work was commissioned also for France, Italy and England.
An inscription read "Pray for the soul of Joanna Simpson who died September 8, 1859".
Also look at the base of the main altar for the inscription about Joanna Roskell The window in the South Transept was erected to the memory of Francis and Clare Reynolds, buried outside by the church entrance, who lived in what is now Reynolds Park.
The other two saints Elizabeth of Hungary and St Vincent de Paul are patrons of the third order.
Central to the rose window, found in the North Transept is Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.
The presbytery is connected on the left by a single-storey corridor with a central gabled entrance and a ridge dormer.
The school is in two storeys and has a nine-bay front, the central bay projecting forward under a gable.