St Judes

"Whoever thought to build a church on such a lonely spot? We've got St John's and that's enough," said Mary Caldicott And the Jordans at the Round House could not believe it true. Until they saw the hedge pulled down and building stone in view. Then came a sign announcing that St Jude's Church would be there, Which made the Friary courting folks near topple with despair." A few lines from the Master Builder, the ballad of the building of St. Judes, recalling the events of 1875-76, at the end of what was then Love Lane.

Allocated a parish of around 4,000 the church was "out in the sticks" for a few years, until one by one, the orderly ranks of terraced housing stretched up to Mount Gould Road, across Beaumont Road and down to Prince Rock on the other side of the new railway. The church and through it the area generally is named after Jude "Servant of Christ and brother of James".