XII Apostles. Leigh.

With the development and expansion of the Lancashire coalfields in the late 19th century, thousands of Irish immigrants flooded the area in search of work. The Bishop of Liverpool saw that this was an opportunity to create new religious openings to serve the immigrant catholic population. A school and church were built.

In 1927 a new church and church house was built.

C'mon
Let's mooch

This church is on the tourbus route, happily not vandalised, but wooden boards conveniently ripped off by someone allowing a snake like slithering entry.

The windows have been boarded up to protect what is left of the glass panes, an artistic feature for future developers. For sale at £200,000, which also includes the next door church house, connected by a wood-framed and covered corridor. Try as I might the house was impregnable

It was cold, the emptiness had sucked all the warmth from the buildings fabric, meagre late winter sunshine , the sun low in the sky, watery offered little.

Just a tad late with this I think, I checked: it was empty

The Red Rose, the emblem and flower of Lancashire just about hanging in there, the kids round here have got pretty crap stone throwing skills

In August 2019 the last masses were announced for the XII Apostles and then the doors were closed for good.

Unless one slithers like a snake

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