The church was enlarged several times. Aisles were added by the architect Francis Cranmer Penrose in 1865. In 1876 a cloister porch was added to the west end and a new organ chamber built on the north side of the chancel and the following year the new organ chamber was converted into a vestry with a new chamber being built on the south side of the chancel. A single bell, hung in 1900, replaced the bell of 1831 which had adorned the former church.
The church was closed in 1974 and the parish united with that of Saint Peter de Merton. The church was declared redundant on 22nd October 1975 and afterwards was used by the Serbian Orthodox community in Bedford until being taken over by the Poles of Bedford in July 1979 for use as a Roman Catholic church called the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Cuthbert, which it remains to the time of writing
Thanks to the Bedfordshire Goverment archive website for the above information
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