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St Joseph’s was founded as a Mission from nearby Cobridge in 1895 and in 1925 work started on the present church designed in the north Italian Lombardic or Romanesque style by the young architect JS Brocklesby.

A plum pudding for old men.

Lying within a quiet lost valley, this is a fine old building constructed in the classic Vale of Clwyd twin nave style, a place of peace.

This church has strong American associations as during the Second World War some 6,000 men and women of the 351st Heavy Bombardment Group Eight, United States Army Airforce, was stationed at the newly created Polebrook Airbase.

The tower is well buttressed and unusually decorated , the first is accounted for by the susceptibility of the earth to subside on account of the Romans extracting iron stone from the vicinity.

The church with magnificent views of Snowdonia and Cardigan Bay.

Situated on rising ground, the church is a spacious cruciform stone building.

The townsfolk of Hatfield Broad Oak wanted a church as big as a monastery, so that is what they built!