He found Catholics scattered here and there all the way from Morriston to Abercrave. Many of them never or hardly ever heard Mass, and the children, of course, had but little chance of being brought up in the practise of their religion.

At Clydach in particular, there were a number of Catholics congregated. The Mond Nickel Works had been started there in 1900 and this employment brought Catholics to the neighbourhood. The works were in steady growth and there was every prospect of a gradual increase in the near future. So much so that Fr Cox came to the conclusion that a new Mass centre was quite necessary.

Obtaining the consent of Bishop Hedley, Abbot Butler of Downside and Fr Joseph Fitzgerald, Rector of  St Joseph's, to his scheme, negotiations were set on foot which resulted in his leasing a large house on the outskirts of Clydach, known as Ynis House, in which to take up residence and make a start. One large room of the house made a suitable Chapel, half the house was let to a subtenenant, and in the remaining two rooms he lived himself.  This arrangement served a while, the first Mass at Ynis House being said in December 1907.

Fr Cox continued to attend the flock at Morriston and he gathered around him at Clydach the nucleus of a future parish.

A year or two later it became desirable to establish somewhere near Swansea a home for the Poor Law Children under the Swansea Guardians. Ynis House was suggested as a suitable place. The Ursuline Nuns undertook the work and took over Ynis House for 50 children, boys and girls, up to the age of twelve. The Chapel in the house still served as a temporary Church for the Clydach congregation...

In June 1911, Fr Cox went to live in two rented rooms in Vardre Road. He then secured a site over an acre on the POntardawe Road and commenced building a permanent Presbytery and Chruch. The house was completed in 1912....the Church followed and was opened in 1915.

"Fr Cyprian Alston O.S.B.  Parish Priest of St Benedict's 1924 -1930"

Current Parish Priest is Fr Teyrnon Williams July 2002 -