The foundation stone of St Peter's was laid and blessed by Archbishop James Smith on Easter Tuesday (17 April) 1906 and the church was solemnly opened on the Feast of St Mark (25 April ) 1907
Much of the cost of the construction of this church was borne by the Paris born Andre Sebastian Raffalovich, a friend of the first parish priest, the Rev. John Gray. Both of these men, who had known each other in the literary salons of London in the 1890s, were converts to Catholicism, who gave much to the Church
The highlight and culmination of the Centenary year was the solemn consecration of the church on Friday, 25th May 2007 by the diocesan bishop, Cardinal Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh