Pastoral charge

For 90 years St Theresa has been keeping a pastoral eye over the fortunes of the Hampshire town of Totton.
The Roman Catholic church in the town centre was the first in the country to be dedicated to the French Saint from Liseux who was canonized in 1925, the year the church was built.
A statue of St Theresa stands above the central part of the church, looking down on the busy main road from the town to neighbouring Southampton, and is housed in an open gabled tower above the porch to what once was the entrance.
The entrance was moved when the church was extended and remodeled nearly 60 years ago. But the gabled overhanging eaves and the open round arches to the former porch remain, and give the building a distinct Italianate architectural flavour.
The church is now entered by steps and a ramp with an open canopy off the adjoining Beaumont Road via an internal porch.

Another statue of St Theresa is within the church.