building society mutual industry banking and financial services founded 1960 headquarters london england uk products savings mortgages investments loans insurance net income 122 000 gbp december 2007 4.7 % on 2006 total assets 44.1 million gbp december 2007 10.3 % on 2006 website www.catholicbs.co.uk the catholic building society was a uk building society based in westminster london . it was the 57th largest in the united kingdom based on total assets of 44 million at 31 december 2007 . 1 the society was started by vincent byrne and the hon. nona byrne in 1960 . 2 the society started at 49 harrington road kensington ; in 1966 it moved to great peter street westminster sharing the westminster diocesan offices under the patronage of canon adrian arrowsmith . from 1972 the society was based in strutton ground moving between buildings on that street until settling at 7 strutton ground in 1993 . 3 it prided itself on making affordable home loans available to people with lower than average incomes giving a high proportion of its home loans to single women . 4 vincent byrne retired from the society in 1967 remaining as honorary president until his death aged 70 in 1978 . he was succeeded by the duke of norfolk and subsequently by nona byrne . the catholic building society and chelsea building society merged in december 2008 under the chelsea name . the chelsea merged with the yorkshire building society in april 2010 . on 5 july 2014 a firm called the fair investment company of bristol was advertising cash isas on behalf of the catholic building society in the form of a structured product related to the performance of the ftse index . external links edit catholic building society building societies association kpmg building societies database 2008 references edit building societies association asset list pdf file obituary nona byrne . daily telegraph . 22 jan 2013 . a new home for the catholic building society . catholic herald . 8 october 1993 . the friendly society . catholic herald . v t e former building societies in the united kingdom abbey national aberavon mutual permanent aid to thrift alliance and leicester anglia barnsley bedford bedford crown bexhill bingley permanent birmingham midshires bolton bradford and bingley bradford equitable bristol and west britannia bury st edmunds burnley catholic century chelsea cheltenham and gloucester chesham cheshire cheshunt chilterns city & metropolitan city of derry city of london clay cross benefit co operative permanent coventry provident derbyshire dunfermline eastbourne essex equitable frome selwood gainsborough gateway greenwich guardian halifax hampshire haywards heath heart of england hendon herts and essex ilkeston permanent kent reliance ketley s lambeth lancastrian leamington spa leeds permanent louth mablethorpe and sutton mercantile mid sussex mornington national & provincial north of england northern rock norwich and peterborough nottingham imperial peckham portman portsmouth regency rowley regis scarborough sheffield shepshed st pancras st stephen s staffordshire standard stroud & swindon sun surrey sussex county town and country tynemouth universal walthamstow wessex west cumbria west of england woolwich v t e independent building societies in the united kingdom bath beverley buckinghamshire cambridge chorley coventry cumberland darlington dudley earl shilton ecology furness hanley economic harpenden hinckley and rugby holmesdale ipswich leeds leek united loughborough manchester mansfield market harborough marsden melton monmouthshire national counties nationwide newbury newcastle nottingham penrith principality progressive saffron scottish skipton stafford railway swansea teachers tipton & coseley vernon west bromwich yorkshire retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title catholic building society & oldid 691280981 categories former building societies of the united kingdom1960 establishments in englandorganizations established in 1960hidden categories use dmy dates from august 2013use british english from august 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 november 2015 at 20 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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