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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'Greenford: Roman catholicism', in 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, (London, 1962) pp. 218. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol3/p218 [accessed 25 April 2024]
ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
There is no evidence of recusancy in Greenford under the penal laws. A Roman Catholic parish was founded in 1928, (fn. 1) and the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation was registered in 1929, (fn. 2) but the permanent church was not erected until 1937. This was served by a rector and two curates of the Pallottine Fathers. (fn. 3) By the late 1950's the Roman Catholic population had increased and a new and larger church was being built in 1959 on a site immediately south of the old one. The first parish school was opened in 1946. (fn. 4)