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.
Saturday Feb 3rd was the date for this year's Patronal Mass. We were fortunate indeed to have as principal celebrant and preacher, The Bishop of Oswestry, the Right Revd Paul Thomas SSC. Read more - Patronal Festival 2024
We love our building and are fortunate in getting help from charitable trusts and olher sources for restoring and improving it, see this article: We are grateful .