Then started the same year, 1846, on Douglastown Hill, a stone Church, 40 feet by 30 feet. But the building was hardly up to the windows when everyone perceived that it would be too small for the wants of the increasing parish; moreover, when cold winter came on, the walls cracked in such a way that work was abandoned and the walls were thrown down.

During the winter 1847, the parishioners hauled out the wood needed for a larger church and as soon as spring appeared, the frame of a new church was put up on the stone foundation. The building was 88 feet by 40 feet. It was finished outside in the spring of 1855, and was dedicated to the 17th day of March, to St. Patrick. Father Dowling had left and Father Fafard was the pastor.

A new bell was given by Father Sasseville and blessed on the 17th of October 1855. It was called Mary Bridget Charlotte. The new church was finished inside during the year 1857 and according to the people who knew, it was the most beautiful church on the coast. Bishop Baillargoan was in Douglastown on June 23rd, 1858, and confirmed 206 persons. On the 13th of July of the same year, (1858), a great misfortune befell the parish. The church inaugurated the year before took fire and burned to the ground. Father Fafard was absent. Most of the men away on fishing voyages. The women alone at that season. They managed to save what they could. The bell fell and broke the falling.