The new church was to be sited in the centre of the village on land purchased from Steel Maitland and would accommodate 500 people at a cost of £8,000, the local contractors charged with the task were David Stewart & sons (joiners), D & J Duff, (plumbers) and Charles Anderson & son, (plasters), they were augmented by builders R McColl of Dunfermline, and local labour from the village.The mining community in the area was ever expanding and with this brought more Catholic families to the area, most notably in Cowie and it was decided that a new larger Church was needed, leaving the old building for sole use as a school (it later burned down in 1934 and was replaced by the current St Mary’s at Park Crescent).