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St Hugh's Church, 71a Derby Road, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3HB
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From December 1896 until April 1909 Mass was said at the ‘Wilmot Arms Inn’, Borrowash, in an upper room hired for the purpose. Throughout these years St Hugh’s was served from St Mary’s, Derby, from where Canon Thomas Byrne used to travel by horse and cab. In 1909 the new chapel of Alvaston was opened in the same parish, and since it was no longer possible to spare a priest to serve Borrowash, the Mass centre was closed.
A new Catholic centre in Borrowash was established in 1945 when, on 8 May, the property known as ‘Borrowash House’ standing in twelve acres of ground on Derby Road to the west of the village was bought by the Diocesan Rescue Society. In
the course of the year building operations were carried out to adapt it as a babies’ home. The management was entrusted to the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace and the formal opening of ‘St Joseph’s Nursery’ took place on 28 May 1946. In 1951 the babies were transferred to Colston Bassett, but Borrowash House was retained by the Sisters as a maternity home until 1975.
On 30 June 1959 Bishop Ellis blessed and opened St Hugh’s chapel-of-ease on the Derby Road. Two things are worthy of note here. The Bishop had stipulated that any Catholic church for Spondon must be built on the site facing the main road between Spondon and Borrowash and secondly, that all new parishes were to be named after English Saints. Thus, a church dedicated to St Hugh (whom one might regard as an honorary Englishman!) was built on Derby Road.
Borrowash became a separate parish in 1961, as prior to this it had been served from St Alban’s, Chaddesden. Borrowash had a resident priest until 2015 when it was returned to the pastoral care of the priest and people of St Alban’s.
