Our Most Holy Redeemer

Introduction

Bishop Graham, Coadjutor Bishop of the Plymouth Diocese, laid the foundation stone in February 1901 and took the first service on the morning of Sunday July 6th 1902.

History

The church was opened in 1902 and consecrated on 10 April 1957. From 1859 the Admiralty provided an old hulk, formerly HMS Hotspur, later renamed Monmouth, moored in the Hamoaze as a chapel for sailors and priests to observe Mass. The Lord Saint Levan offered land and the Admiralty gave £500 towards the building. A Miss Ellis, who had come to Plymouth from Hayle for health reasons, gave £5,000.

Mr R G Jenkin erected the building at a cost of £5,000. Our Most Holy Redeemer was reduced to a burnt out shell during the night raid of April 22nd-23rd 1941. Attached to the Church is a house for the Sisters of Charity of Saint Paul. There were seats of pitch pine for some 550 people and an oak altar. The church was rebuilt in 1954 and re-consecrated on Wednesday April 10th 1957.

Visiting

The Bishop consecrated both the outside and inside walls of the Church and the High Altar, while Monsignor E Dewey, a former Royal Naval Chaplain, consecrated the Altar of the Sacred Heart and the Abbot of Buckfast, the Right reverend Dom