St Peter, Stonyhurst - Roman Catholic
St Peter,
Stonyhurst
Lancashire
Cemeteries
The church has/had a graveyard.Church History
It was founded in 1784.The history of this church and parish is largely that of the famous College on which it depends. Although in persecution days the Shireburne family maintained a private chapel for themselves and for their servants and tenants, the present community owes much to the demands made for labour and services by the existence of a large school of boys. The Jesuits and their pupils were driven from Liege in Belgium by the forces of the French Revolution in 1794. Thomas Weld of Lulworth, Dorset, who had inherited Stonyhurst, offered it to his former teachers as a place of refuge. From 1794 to 1797 the school chapel was used by the Catholics of the locality. Later the old stables were converted into a temporary chapel, until in 1832 the present fine church, a small version of King's College Chapel at Cambridge, was opened and later consecrated by Bishop Briggs. In recent years two chapels of ease have been opened in the district-St. Joseph's at Hurst Green and Dutton Lee.Taken from "Salford Diocese and its Catholic past", a survey by Charles A. Bolton, a Priest of the above Diocese. Published 1950 on the First Centenary for the Diocese of Salford.
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