In 1976 Father John Ryan, decided to compliment the opal mining background of the area by commissioning local miner, Des Burton to install a border of opal around the carving of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. Instead, Des offered the Priest ‘a bit of a wall’. This turned out to be almost an entire wall, which in now installed on St Finbarr’s altar, lectern and baptismal font.
Bill Durack who was part of the architectural team who designed St Finbarr’s Church and his sister Mary Durack, author of Kings in Grass Castles, donated the beautiful coloured glass windows of the western side of the church, in memory of their famous ancestors.
