| Description | The Parish of Yeading was founded in 1957. The church, designed to seat 450 people, was built to serve the Barnhill Estate, a post-war housing development by Hayes and Hillingdon Urban District Council. The foundation stone was laid on 26 March 1960 and the church was opened the following year. There is brightly coloured 'dalle de verre' glass by Pierre Fourmaintreaux in the aisle windows and a sculpture of St Raphael by Hugh Powell, which projects from the outside west wall. A plaque records that the founder of the church was the Rev. Eamonn Scanlan, who was first the Administrator and then the parish priest for St Raphael, Yeading until 1983. The church was consecrated on 4th May 1975 |