Local tradition has it that Mass was said from 1897 at the nearby Trent Lodge, served from the city’s St Patrick’s Church. In 1904 a site was bought on Victoria Road and in 1929, when Holy Spirit became an independent parish, work started on a new church, which opened in June 1930.
The church builder was F.J. Bradford of Leicester. Notes in the Diocesan archive describe this as "a miniature Romanesque church with Byzantine details". Then in 1972 the Bradford church was demolished and replaced with the present building by Reynolds & Scott. The earlier parish hall (1967, by Reynolds & Scott) was retained. The new church was designed to accommodate 360 people, with 250 in the nave and space for a further 110 in the day chapel, which was separated from the nave by sliding windows (since removed). The total cost was £70,000.
The church has a notable collection of dalle de verre stained glass and more recently has been dramatically embellished by wall paintings by Jennifer Bell
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