It is situated on Paternoster Row, between Wolverhampton City Council and the Ring Road St Peters.

During the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot two Catholics were executed in High Green, Wolverhampton (now known as Queen Square).

Peter Giffard was also arrested but survived and a local priest, William Ironmonger was also executed.

There were more riots when the last Catholic King James II fled the country in 1688 and William of Orange and his wife Mary became the rulers.

Local gentry who remained Catholic were, the Giffards, the Levesons (pronounced "Looson") and the Whitgreaves.

His brass memorial designed by Pugin is in the Nave and the Bishop's grave is currently in the crypt, he was originally buried in the orchard where the Ring Road now lies.

The side Chapels dedicated to Our Lady and the Sacred Heart were not yet built and as it was hidden by the surrounding buildings and only approached by an archway from the road outside.

Thesis, he quotes a letter written in defence of one Ann Williams in 1831 at the London Criminal Court.

The parish was assured that the graveyard was safe but 42 bodies were disinterred and moved to Jeffcock Road so that a new retaining wall could be built.

In July 1967, the Wolverhampton Express and Star reported that the house was not affected by the dry rot.

The Archdiocese applied for a demolition order as they thought that the cost of repair was too high and they also conjectured that no one would come as: "the Church is cut off by the Ring Road and the Parishioner's homes were quite far from the town centre".

[citation needed] A new church was to be built, possibly in Gatis Street, Whitmore Reans.

The money would come from selling the land where the church and the House stood and an office block was to be built on the site.

This time Wolverhampton Council and a new Church Committee worked together and the proposal for demolition was rejected in 1982 by the Secretary of State for the Environment (Michael Heseltine M.P.).