Corpus Christi, Miles Platting - Roman Catholic
Corpus Christi,
Varley St,
Miles Platting
Lancashire
Click pictures to enlarge
Cemeteries
The church did not have a graveyard.Church History
It was founded in 1889 and closed in 2007.The Basilica, on Varley Street, was built in 1907 by the Norbertine Canons and closed in April 2007. The final celebration, on Friday 27 April 2007, was a special service in thanksgiving for 118 years of Norbertine service in Miles Platting.
The decision followed consultations by the Community with surveyors, architects, professional fund raisers and many others. The renewal of the site and the Corpus Christi Basilica were considered far too heavy a burden for their community to bear in order to sustain their continued residency.
The Norbertine Canons of the Order of Premontre were once famous in England. The Salford diocese was pleased to help their restoration in this country by inviting the Order to open a mission in Manchester. The mission was opened on Christmas Eve, 1889, by the much beloved Abbot Geudens. Schools and a very fine church were built under his rule. He retired to Belgium in 1913 and died the year following.In the present century the life of the Priory of Corpus Christi has been largely identified with Abbot Seadon and Abbot Toner. The parish suffered heavily during the air-raids.
The present parish priest, Fr. Anselm Cross, is labouring to make good the damage sustained.
The remarkable achievement of the three brethren who began the parish was that beginning with an old warehouse, they were able to build a church which has beea given the title of a Basilica. The church is the centre of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Mass of Reparation for Great Britain and Ireland.
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 SJ859995. 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 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.
- Has this church ever had a graveyard? If so have the Monumentals Inscriptions
been transcribed and published, and by whom?
- 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.