[4] With the chapel being too small for the increasing Catholic congregation, a new larger church needed to be built.

It was designed by Henry Clutton in the Gothic Revival style and paid for by a Miss Ellen France with furnishings donated by other people.

On 17 August 1864, the church was consecrated by the Bishop of Birmingham William Ullathorne.

[4] In December 1883, the nave roof, organ, and a lot of the interior was destroyed in a fire.

It is also a Grade II listed building, notable for its dalle de verre windows designed by Dom Charles Norris.