Kettering Church Consecration Marks 50 Years Of Progress

In 1891 Mass was offered in a billiards room in the town of Kettering. Later, a room in a shoe factory was used. Then the ground floor of a house that is now the presbytery. Eventually a new church which is now the parish hall was built.
On Tuesday, fifty-five years after the foundation of the Kettering mission, the parish church of St. Edward the Confessor opened in 1940, was consecrated by the Bishop of Northampton, Mgr. T. Leo Parker.
Mgr. J. B. Canon Marshall blessed and solemnly opened the church on October 20, 1940,
The debt on the church has been paid off six years earlier than expected due to the fact that the mission inherited the residue of the estate of the late Canon Walmsley Carter.