St Francis Xavier Church

St. Francis Xavier’s Church is a roman catholic parish church. The building was built 1839 and is a grade 2 listed building (If something is graded you can’t knock it down or replace it, you must keep it as it is). The building’s construction cost over £16,000 and the foundation stone was laid in 1837. There is an ancient relic inside, the hand of St John Kemble a Catholic martyr, who was executed in 1679. He was beatified in 1929 and canonized in 1970.