St Malachy, Collyhurst - Roman Catholic
Eggington Street,
Collyhurst
Lancashire
Click pictures to enlarge
Cemeteries
The church does not have a graveyard.Church History
It was founded in 1922. The parish is now merged with St. Patrick's Collyhurst, although services are still held at St. Malachy's.
This thriving parish was born in difficult conditions. It was formed out of a part of St. Patrick's, and a part of St. Edmund's, Miles Platting, in 1922.Fr. Marshall, later Bishop of Salford, was the first parish priest. He began by renting Berry's blacking factory, and there celebrated Mass until better provision could be made. He had a great struggle. Three separate attempts were made to set fire to the blacking works. Then there was a hard fight to secure a school, ending in a public enquiry at the Town Hall, an enquiry which ended with a victory for St. Malachy's. The school and temporary church beneath the school were officially opened in 1929.
The debt contracted at this time-the crippling sum of £40,000 -has now been paid off.
Fr. Marshall was obliged to retire through ill health in 1934, when he became priest at Longridge.
He was succeeded by Fr. Brennan, 1934-1944. Fr. T. Falkner has been in charge since 1945.
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 SD852001. 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.