St Joseph's Church
Bedwell Crescent, Stevenage
Originally a temporary building known as ‘the hut’ installed on the Bedwell site in 1953. The new building was opened as a church by the Archbishop of Westminster on 7 July 1957. There were problems with the fabric of the structure in the 1980s, which caused the roof to be removed and replaced by a roof at a lower level. The first parish priest at St Joseph’s was Fr John Coughlan.