plans for sacred heart chapel began in the early 1920s, james o’brien created another presbytery by acquiring a house on the cardigan road. in 1925, plans were drawn up by j. armstrong of leeds for a new church hall to be built next to the presbytery. unfortunately work came to a halt soon afterwards, supposedly because of ‘the fraudulent activities of the architect’. three years later, the new architect, edward simpson brought the construction to a close by finishing the building in 1930. he altered the designs of the building so that it could be used as both a chapel and a church hall. it was named sacred heart chapel after the main parish church it was attached to.