In the 1920s the Bierley estate was developed on the south-eastern outskirts of Bradford, and a Catholic school was built to designs by Empsall, Clarkson & Clarke, opening in 1929. The Assembly Hall was used for Mass. In 1940 St Columba’s was established as a parish separate from St Anne’s but it was not until the 1950s that a site for the building of a church and presbytery was found on Tong Street. Building began in 1958 and the church was formally opened on 3 October 1959. The church was reordered circa 1990, by Peter Langtry-Langton."

At the front of the church there is a bronze statue of Jesus Christ on the cross. It is position against plain glass arched windows above the church entrance.

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