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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1962.
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ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
In 1640 and 1706 there were no known or suspected papists in the parish. (fn. 1) A woman who died in 1726 was reputed to have been a papist. (fn. 2) It has been stated that from 1849 a priest from Weybridge held services in a cottage in the Staines Road, which was later demolished when the railway was built, that a cottage in Park Road was used later, and that in 1855 stables in Hanworth Road were used for a church and school. (fn. 3) By 1862 a chapel dedicated to St. Ignatius of Loyola was being served from North Hyde. (fn. 4) In the Ordnance Survey map of 1864-5, where it is called St. Leonard's, a Roman Catholic chapel is marked in the Hanworth Road. (fn. 5) This building is now (1957) used as a workshop. The present church of St. Ignatius in Green Street was opened in 1869. (fn. 6) It was designed by C. A. Buckler in the Early English style and consists of a nave, chancel, and one aisle, all built of rustic stone.
St. Teresa's Convent of the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul was established in 1926, with a school, in the house called Sunbury Manor. (fn. 7)