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Heritage Open Days 2017

Heritage Open Days 2017 will be taking place between the 7^th and the 10^th September this year.

As usual many Catholic churches are opening their doors giving people the opportunity to explore buildings usually kept locked while not in use. Please consider making use of this opportunity to support these sites.

For more information consult the Heritage Open Days website www.heritageopendays.org.uk

NORTH WEST

Lancashire

Hurst Cross, St Christopher RC Church

Sefton Park, Liverpool St Clare’s RC Church

Liverpool, St Francis Xavier’s RC Church

Old Swan, Liverpool, St Oswald’s RC Church

Wallasey, Ss Peter & Paul’s RC Church (The Dome of Home)

St Helen’s, Holy Cross & St Helen RC Church

Darwen, Sacred Heart & St Edward RC Church

Over Darwen, St Joseph RC Church

Cheshire

Stockport, Our Lady & the Apostles RC Church

 

NORTH EAST & YORKSHIRE

County Durham

Old Elvet, St Cuthbert’s RC Church

Old Esh, St Michael’s RC Church

Yorkshire

Hull, St Vincent’s RC Church

Hull, St Charles Borromeo RC Church

Northumberland

Old Gate, St Robert of Newminster RC Church

Tyne and Wear

Gateshead, St Patrick’s RC Church

Sunderland, St Ignatius the Martyr RC Church

Wallsend, Our Lady & St Columba RC Church

Blaydon on Tyne, St Mary & St Thomas RC Church

 

SOUTH WEST

Cornwall

Launceston, St Cuthbert Mayne RC Church

Somerset

Bath, Eyre Chapel

 Wiltshire

Calne, St Edmund’s RC Church

 

SOUTH EAST & HOME COUNTIES

Berkshire

Reading, St James RC Church

Reading, Sacred Heart RC Church

Essex

Colchester, St James the Less & St Helen’s RC Church

Hertfordshire

Bishop’s Stortford, St Joseph’s RC Church

Kent

Folkstone, St Peter’s RC Church

Surrey

Effingham, Our Lady of Sorrows RC Church

Effingham, St Teresa’s RC School

Woking, Holy Cross Chapel

 

WEST MIDLANDS

Gloucestershire

Gloucester, St Peter’s RC Church

 Staffordshire

Newcastle under Lyme, Holy Trinity RC Church

Burslem, St Joseph’s RC Church

Stoke on Trent, Sacred Heart RC Church

Warwickshire

Birmingham, St Chad’s Cathedral

Birmingham, The Oratory

 

 EAST MIDLANDS

Lincolnshire

Grimsby, St Mary on the Sea RC Church

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SEMINAR on RECORDS with LAUNCH OF The MARGARET HIGGINS DATABASE

Catholic Walks in London

On Wednesday this week Joanna Bogle is leading another of her renowned Catholic history walks around the City of London.

The walk begins at 6.30pm on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral and will cost £5, for more information see the website .

 

Visit to Worcester

The Midland Catholic History Society and the English Catholic History Society are organising a trip to Worcester to visit St George’s Church & the Worcester Cathedral Library and Archive.

St George’s Church was built by the Jesuits in 1829, and taken over by the Archdiocese of Birmingham in 1990.

The cost is £10 and can be booked with the attached form Mid Cath Hist Soc

Staffordshire History Day

The Staffordshire Record Office will be hosting a History Day on the 7th May 2016, 10am-5pm.

Tickets – £19.

For more information or to book, email staffordshire.record.office@Staffordshire.gov.uk

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