Sunday, 18 January 2015

The top of St Paul's


The top of St Paul's Roman Catholic Church viewed with a bit of zoom from near the bottom of Hamnett Street.

St Paul's Roman Catholic Church was founded on Hamnett Street in 1848, meeting in rooms above a factory. In 1852, Mr Ashton, owner of the Newton Banks Print Works, gave a plot of land off Newton St in Newton Moor, to build a Catholic church. The foundation stone was laid on Friday, 20th May 1853 and the church opened for worship on 21st June 1854.

This information is from a 120pp book by Bernard Marshall written in 1998 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the parish. It is downloadable as a pdf file and contains a wealth of information.

A contribution to Inspired Sundays.
Posted by Gerald (SK14) at Sunday, January 18, 2015
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7 comments:

  1. Tom18 January 2015 at 12:15

    I like how church steeples can be seen from afar. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  2. Elizabeth Edwards18 January 2015 at 13:50

    love the cross on top ... bell tower too. have a lovely warm & cozy week. ( :

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  3. Mari18 January 2015 at 18:55

    Churches shots from afar leaves a mysterious view.

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  4. Ruth Kelly18 January 2015 at 22:00

    This is a very unusual shot of the church through the bare trees.

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  5. William Kendall19 January 2015 at 00:37

    A rather unusual steeple!

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  6. Anonymous19 January 2015 at 04:23

    Love this bell tower (and the sun is shining!)

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  7. Mr T19 January 2015 at 23:01

    As I was zipping through the images on the CDP FB page and before I saw it was one of yours Gerald I assumed that it was somewhere in middle Europe. Great pic.

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