was built in 1867 as a Catholic school which closed in 1931. It was converted into a church and opened by Archbishop Thomas Leighton Williams in 1935. It replaced St Mary's Chapel at Foxcote House, the home of the Canning family. The church was consecrated by Bishop Philip Pargeter, Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, in 1992.
Foxcote was a Mass centre for local Catholics from Reformation times onwards and a priest was probably always in residence. Mass was said in a room in the house until a chapel was built in 1814. This was used until Foxcote was sold after Philip Canning Howard’s death in 1934 when the chapel was closed. The Howard family presented the altar from Foxcote to the Church of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, London.
Features of special interest
The altar, reredos and holy water stoup also came from Campden House and were probably designed by E. W. Pugin, eldest son of A. W. Pugin.
The north sanctuary window, by Donald Brooke of Long Compton, commemorates the local martyrs of the recusant period together with Ss John Fisher and Thomas More.
In the sanctuary pavement is a small portion of tessallated pavement from the house of St John and St Paul in Rome, given by Bro. Lambert of the Passionist Order.
The icon of St Philip was painted by Peter Murphy in 2008.
The wooden statue of Our Lady, Queen of Peace was carved as a thankoffering for the ending of the 2nd World War.