St John the Baptist, Burnley - Roman Catholic
Bracewell Street,
Burnley
Lancashire
Click pictures to enlarge
Cemeteries
The church does not have a graveyard.Church History
It was founded in 1892.This mission was founded as St. Saviour's when Bishop Vaughan sent the Rev. Arnold Nohlmans to St. Mary's to establish a new church. Fr. John Aukes, a Dutch priest, soon took up the same work and made a chapel over a blacksmith's shop. Bishop Vaughan laid the stone for a two-storey school-chapel in 1893. The chapel was solemnly opened at the end of the same year by Archbishop Scarisbrick.From 1896 to 1902 there were three priests here for a short time. Fr. Wookey (1897 to 1901) was faced by a rapid growth of the school population. "When the school was opened in 1894 the number of scholars enrolled was about 160; now, after six years, the number on the registers is 380. . . . It is our proud boast that we have never yielded up a single school to the School Board, but that we are ready to make sacrifice after sacrifice to secure a religious education for our children."
Fr. Wm. Shine (1902-1913) built a new house and a fine church in 1908. Bishop Casartelli laid the foundation stone and opened the church. Fr. J. Connor and Fr. H. Atkinson laboured here for several years. Father W. Fletcher is the present Pastor.
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.
Maps
The church is located at OS grid reference SD847342. You can see this on maps provided by:- this church marked on a Google map. (Use this to report a corrected location)
- Old Maps
- Streetmap.co.uk.
- multimap.com.
- www.magic.gov.uk
- Google maps showing nearby churches with satellite image option.
This site provides historical information about churches, other places of worship and cemeteries. It has no connection with the churches etc. themselves. For current information you should contact them directly.
Help required
The information provided has been obtained from a number of sources and although every effort is made to avoid errors, just a few may be present. So if there are any please let us know. [Use the link at the bottom of this page].We do not currently have the following information, and if you can provide it then please do so:
- We think we have the exact location of the church.
If not please select
the following link and
use the instructions
for passing on map locations.
That should enable us to determine the exact location. Use the contact link at the end of this page
to send us an email, and paste in the URL you have selected.
Click here to show map.
- Who holds the records of baptisms, marriages or burials? Have any transcripts of the registers been published?
If you have any further information about the church that you think would be useful to other researchers then do get in touch.