Holy Cross RC Church

Holy Cross Church was opened by Bishop Amigo on 14 September 1904 - the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Originally serviced from Lewisham, the new church's 1st parish priest, Fr Edward Escarguel, was installed on 7 January 1905. The church had to wait until July 1960, however, to be formally consecrated. Holy Cross was one of over twenty churches built in the early years of the twentieth Century under the financial patronage of Miss Frances Ellis (1846-1930) an heiress who converted to Catholicism and was received into the Church in January 1901.