St. Francis Xavier Church. The original St. Francis Xavier church was a handsome (timber) Gothic Building. It measured 150 feet in length and 65 feet wide. When the new brick church was erected in 1951, the original timber church (seen here) became St. Mary’s Hall. June 1891. Members of the Hibernian Association at a breakfast meeting pictured outside the original St Francis Xavier Church in Mansfield. Annual Communion Breakfast. St Francis Xavier Branch No 253 HACBS Mansfield 19/06/1910. Front row left to right: W. Knight, W. Byrne, R. Young, J. Kelly, T. Sheehan, C. Desmond, S.H. Conlan, J.P.O’Halloran, E.T. Begley, P.J. Maloney MP, D. P. Begley, M. McCormack, Fr. D. O’Connor, J. O’Neill, J. Carroll, J.J. Hearn, Dr La Touche, J.T. Desmond, J.P. Begley, D.J. Desmond, P.T. Byrne, J. Byrne, P. Cryan, T. Murphy, J. Young, A. Murphy. 2nd row left to right: P. O’Halloran, F. Guiscetti, D. O’Toole, J.T. Smith, J. Hamilton, D. Ryan, T. Reardon, J. McMetnaman, W. Smith, John Murphy, P.R. Hearn, W. J. Desmond, P. Cummins, W. Christopher, T. Kearney, J. Lewis, J. Murphy, A. Christopher, J. Heffernan, J.M. Kennedy, P. Devon, S.D. Kennedy, W. Purcell, A. J. Cousens, E. J. Kelly, E. T. Prendergast, P. O’Brien, T. O’Brien, P. Lloyd, J. Comerford, F. Davies, T. Phelan. 3rd row left to right: D. T. Dinan, A. E. Young, W. Arbuthnot, Jas Murphy, J. J. Murphy, A. Washington, W. P. Desmond, R. Purcell, J. E. McIntosh, J. Christopher, P. P. Power, J. J. Arbuthnot, J. Mulligan, J. P. McCormack. 4th row left to right (back row): P. McLaughlin, E. O’Halloran, P. O’Toole, E. Murphy, T. Alyward, John Flannery. P. Vallance, M. Kelleher, P. Murphy, C. McKerran, J. Power, D. Hearn, John O’Brien, S. Saligari, John Hearn, J. F. Kennedy, J. J. Arbuthnot, Jas Kennedy, E. O’Connor, E. Sweeney, M.F. Bourke, P. Sheehan, D. T. Begley, M.J. Kennedy, T. Desmond, M. Arbuthnot, D. Culhane, John Desmond, M. Ryan, W.J. Refern, E. O’Brien, M. Byrne.