Great Harwood Catholic Registers

The Lancashire Catholic parish of St Hubert, Great Harwood have transcribed and published their sacramental registers on their website. The parish began in 1857.

The work has been undertaken by parishioner Maureen Barton.

See the church website for more information.

Catholic Sites on Heritage Open Days 2015

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Heritage Open Days

Heritage Open Days 2015 run from the 10^th to the 15^th September and the following Catholic sites are opening their doors during at least one of those days.

Please see the Heritage Open Days website for more information on a particular venue.

North East England

County Durham

• St Cuthbert’s RC Church, Old Elvet – 1827 church by Ignatius Bonomi.
• Ushaw College – Former Catholic seminary

Northumberland

• Biddlestone Hall RC Chapel – Private family oratory.

Yorkshire

• St Charles Borromeo RC Church, Hull – 1829 Rococo style church.
• St Hilda’s RC Church, Whitby – 1867 church by Hadfield
• St Cuthbert’s Church, Bradford – Grade II listed church with artwork by Eric Gill

North West England

Cheshire

• St Werburgh RC Church, Chester – 1875 church by Edmund Kirby.
• St Alban RC Church, Macclesfield – One of AWN Pugin’s best preserved churches.

Lancashire

• St Ann’s RC Church, Ashton under Lyne – Historic church by EW Pugin.
• St Christopher’s RC Church, Hurst Cross – Post-war split level church
• St Chad’s RC Church, Cheetham Hill – The Manchester Oratory – 1847 gothic church presently under restoration.
• Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackpool – Post-war chapel and shrine.
• Our Lady’s RC Church, Brownedge – Benedictine priory church.
• St Clare’s RC Church, Liverpool
• St Francis Xavier RC Church, Liverpool – Grade II* Listed Jesuit church dating from 1848
• Church of the Sacred Heart, Darwen
• St Joseph’s RC Church, Darwen

South East England

Berkshire

• Inglewood House, Kintbury, Hungerford – Former De La Salle College
• St James RC Church, Reading – Pugin’s first Catholic Church, dating from 1837

Cambridgeshire

• Our Lady of Good Counsel & St Peter RC Church, March – Post war catholic parish church.
• Sacred Heart RC Church, St Ives – A church moved ‘brick by brick’ from Cambridge in 1902.

Essex

• St James the Less RC Church, Colchester – 1837 church by J.J. Scholes

Hertfordshire

• Our Lady & St Andrew RC Church, Hitchin
• RC Church of the Holy Rood, Watford – Grade 1 listed church

Norfolk

• Our Lady RC Church, King’s Lynn – 1896 church

Surrey

• St Mary the Virgin, Guildford – 1847 church
• St Raphael’s RC Church, Kingston upon Thames – 1847 Grade II* Listed church

South West England

Devon

• Our Lady of the Assumption RC Church, Tavistock – Grade II* Listed former Anglican church.

Dorset

• Lulworth Castle RC Chapel – 18^th century private oratory.

Somerset

• Eyre Chapel – Private oratory by Hansom

East Midlands

Nottinghamshire

• St Joseph’s RC Church – Post-war church.

West Midlands

Gloucestershire

• St Peter’s RC Church, Gloucester – 1858 gothic church by Blount.

Oxfordshire

• St Edmund & Frideswide RC Church & Friary – Greyfriars Friary

Staffordshire

• St Giles RC Church, Cheadle, Staffs – One of AWN Pugin’s finest churches
• Holy Trinity, Newcastle under Lyme – 1834 church in Medieval gothic style

Warwickshire

• Cloughton Court, Alcester – Tudor stately home. Home to the recusant Catholic Throckmorton family
• Leamington Spa Mission – 1828 former Catholic church
• Leamington Spa Polish RC Church – 1830 former town hall.
• Princethorpe College, Rugby – Former Benedictine Priory from 1833.
• St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham – AWN Pugin’s Cathedral.
• Birmingham Oratory – Grade II listed Italian Baroque complex and church

Victorian London

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Thanks to Sylvia for pointing out these useful links on the GenDocs site:

Victorian London Catholic Churches

Convents and Monasteries

The Irish in Victorian London 1840-1860

Coed Anghred, Monmouthshire

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This little chapel is  Coed Anghred, Monmouthshire. The date is about 1901 and there is an article about it in ECA Journal Vol 2 No. 2 Autumn 1986: The Burial Ground and Former Catholic Church at Coed Anghred by Mary Hopson.  It was demolished in 1911 after only 70 years use. Members of Sylvia Dibbs family are buried there.

The other pictures show a little girl & some nuns & the inside of a church; Sylvia does not know the order of nuns nor the church, perhaps someone out there does.

All three photos come from an album collected about 1901, by a relative of Sylvia’s who went to Canada about that time. The album is now in the possession of a distant cousin in the USA.

MLFHS Catholic Register Index

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The Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society maintain The Catholic Register Index (CRI) which contains data derived from the registers of a number of Roman Catholic churches in Manchester. The source of this information is the original registers for these churches which have been transcribed by members of the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society and of the North West Branch of the Catholic Family History Society.

You can view the index here and can search it via this link. At the time of writing this post the index was last updated on 1 November 2013.

London’s Oldest Catholic Churches

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London’s Oldest Catholic Churches

This blog entry from The Jacobite Intelligencer has some interesting details and photographs, well worth a look.