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St John's Church, Wigan

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In 1817, the increasing Catholic population of the town meant that there were calls from the congregation for a larger place of worship to be built. A plot of land behind the chapel was used for construction and the foundation stone was laid on 27 January 1818. The church was opened on 24 June 1819.
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Fr Charles Brockholes SJ was the person first connected to the mission of St. John's. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1704 and was sent to Wigan in 1740. When he arrived in Standishgate, where he paid for the building of a house that had a chapel upstairs. This house was built between Dicconson
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Like St Mary's church, St John's has two Masses for Sundays, with times that do not conflict with its neighbour, one Mass is 5:00pm Saturday afternoon and the other at 11:00am Sunday morning. Since 2018 St John's has been part of St William's parish.
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The new church cost £9,000 and could accommodate a congregation of 1,000 people. It was 120 feet long, 50 feet wide and 50 feet high, with room for the parishioners in the organ gallery.
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Over the following decades, the church was extended and renovated. In 1849, the interior of St. John's was again decorated at a cost of £400.
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divided the country into 'residences' and St John's church was named after the 'residence' that covered Lancashire, St John's.
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Street and Powell Street. As of 2013, the house still has a priest hiding hole, above a fireplace in the house.
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in 1933. It is a Grade II* listed building and the sanctuary inside the church was designed by
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Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls Church, Llandrindod Wells
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Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church, Ramsey
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In 1933, the Jesuits relinquished the church to the
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53°32′57″N 2°37′41″W / 53.5493°N 2.6280°W / 53.5493; -2.6280
OS grid reference
Wigan
Greater Manchester
Denomination
Roman Catholic
StWilliamsParishWigan.com
Dedication
St John the Apostle
Church building
Architect(s)
Joseph John Scoles
Romanesque Revival
Groundbreaking
Archdiocese
Liverpool
Deanery
Parish
Roman Catholic
Church
Wigan
Greater Manchester
St Mary's
Society of Jesus
diocese
Archdiocese of Liverpool
Joseph John Scoles

Jesuits

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