WELCOME...

  • Welcome to the Holy Cross Church Website
  • We are situated in Wotton under Edge in Gloucestershire
  • The parish is in the care of priests of the Society of the Devine Saviour - Salvatorians
  • Our parish priest is Fr. Aelred Dobson SDS
  • We look forward to welcoming you to our community

The Society of the Divine Saviour - The Salvatorians

  • The Society was founded in Rome in 1881 by Fr Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan.
  • The aim was to found a religious organisation made up of clergy and lay people, especially proffesional men, who would combat the growing secularisation of the age.
  • In fact, he ended up founding a Society of Priests, sisters and brothers who take on any work "which the charity of christ might inspire"
  • There are over 1,200 Salvatorian's in fourteen countries, working in parishes, foreign missions and as chaplins in hospitals, universities and prisons etc.
  • If you would like to know more about the Salvatorians click here

A little history...

Old Town Mill, part of which is known as Holy Cross Church was built in 1817. By 1825 over 200 people were employed in the mill manufacturing broadcloth. The part of the mill now occupied by the church was originally the engine house for the mill.

James Wilfred Palser, conveyed the property to the Clifton Diocesan Trustees in 1953 and the large room upstairs was converted in the church.

The building was renovated in 1982, and the Church moved down stairs, and the old church, became the upper room and a venue for social activities.