#church

-This is my first report, so I hope I've done it right! History St Brigid's was Portumna's original Catholic church before the current one was built in the 1950s. It dates from 1828, but because this was before full Catholic Emancipation in Ireland (when it became legal for Catholics to sit...

This place is very local to us and is one we have checked from time to time over the past couple of years so when we saw @MotionlessMike had done it we had to go for a look. There has been a church on this site since the 1880's, the original church being corrugated iron. The existing building...

This has been posted a few times but not in its current state. St John's was built between 1890 and 1892 to a design by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. Financial donations towards the site and structure of the church were made by Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw of Crawshaw...

Once a sunday school standing beside a beautiful church. Since the church was abandoned it has become a mess with little historical presence, beautiful building but the same cannot be said for the inside, whoever did this is out of order and the state which it is in today is just saddening. Many...