OUR LADY AND ST JOSEPH
This page is for historic information only and may not be current.
Parish Priest: Father John Corbyn
Priest in Charge: ...
Contact See Stock Press or Diocese website
	Services:
	Sundays:		10.00 a.m. Sung Mass with children's liturgy
	Holy days:		10.30 a.m.
	Tuesdays		10.00 a.m. to 11 a.m. - time for reflection
	Thursdays		10.00 a.m.
	Thursday		Coffee for the bereaved 11.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
	Saturday		10.00 a.m. followed by Confessions on request.
			The Catholic Church in Stock by Father Stewart Foster published in 1991 is available in the library
			Believed to be correct as of September 2026

Items for the Food Bank in Billericay (pasta, rice,cereals tinned fish/meat/veg loo and kitchen rolls can be left in the church porch any Thursday morning.

The Catholic Church has had a presence in the area since at least Saxon times, with both All Saints (Stock) and St Mary's (Buttsbury) being Catholic churches prior to the Reformation. After the Reformation and up to 1831 Crondon Park Lodge was the centre of Catholic worship in the area. There was then a gap until 1852, when Lilystone Hall became the centre of Catholic worship and in 1863 the chapel there was dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In 1891 a Catholic school (St Joseph's) was opened on Mill Road with a cemetery for Catholics being opened In 1898 in the grounds behind the school.

The school closed in 1937 and the building was converted in a church - the present church. On its Conversion the building took over the name of Our Lady of Mount Carmel from the Lilystone Hall chapel. In September 2001, it was renamed Our Lady and St Joseph. The present Church and it's surroundings are of historic interest. The late Donald Jarvis, village historian, writing in 1934 commented that the building was the best looking Victorian building in the village. During it's construction, evidence of an Iron Age settlement was found on the site, indicating that this was one the earliest settlements in Stock.

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Picture, Information and text by Charles Philips