Report, images and sermon - St Agatha's Fest 2026

A very warm welcome to St Agatha's and St Barnabas churches:

• a welcoming all-age worshipping community drawn from the parish, the diocese and beyond
• a growing , diverse and  friendly congregation
• famous for its long and venerable catholic tradition
• a breathtaking building - a spiritual powerhouse and a powerful landmark symbol of Christianity towering over the Stratford Road
• a Forward-in-Faith parish
• two churches - St Agatha's on Stratford Road and the more intimate St Barnabas on Ladypool Road
• the only English church to contain a relic of Saint Agatha.