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build a large parish church in the centre of the community, but to solve the immediate problem it was decided to build a chapel attached to the School, and connected to it by large double doors. This chapel, the original church, was designed by W. and J. Hay and built by George Harris of St. Helens. It was
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National School was opened on this site in 1837, Church services being conducted in the main classroom by clergy from Ashton. (It now forms a meeting room connecting the Church to the adjacent Vicarage). By 1861 the rising population of Haydock made this provision inadequate. It was hoped to
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By 1888 this had become too small for the growing population. Rather than building a new church on another site it was decided to build onto the existing chapel and in 1889 plans were approved for a substantial extension. The foundation stone for this was laid on 5 October 1889 and the newly
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The present organ is on a raised platform over the entrance to the Church. Plaques nearby state that it was originally built by
Harrison and Harrison for Lochend United Free Church, Cambeltown, in 1922, being rebuilt and modified for St. James's by David Wells of Liverpool in 1986.
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on 11 December 1866 . At the laying of the foundation stone the dedication was stated to be to St. Alban, but at the consecration of the building as the Parish Church of the newly founded Parish the dedication was made to St. James the Great.
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and carved by Jethro Harris. In the Lady Chapel is a
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491:of the church. The newer part of the church is
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871:The Victorian Society
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607:Diocese of Liverpool
458:Traditional Catholic
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364:Fr. Michael Vyse SSC
841:on 24 November 2009
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663:Lowe, G.E. (1996).
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602:Deanery of Winwick
473:Bishop of Beverley
244:Architectural type
201:St James the Great
90:53.4678°N 2.6595°W
633:Pevsner, Nikolaus
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674:0952781409
588:References
564:Activities
508:subsidence
405:Merseyside
196:Dedication
133:Merseyside
113:SJ 564,970
78:53°28′04″N
535:monastery
533:from the
501:sandstone
471:from the
461:tradition
370:Curate(s)
340:Bishop(s)
298:Liverpool
258:Materials
81:2°39′34″W
865:(1991),
845:21 March
818:21 March
791:21 March
706:21 March
695:About us
635:(2006),
612:14 April
576:See also
527:triptych
409:Anglican
360:Vicar(s)
281:Province
166:Catholic
153:Anglican
120:Location
784:Welcome
539:Romania
446:chancel
422:History
414:in the
319:Winwick
315:Deanery
293:Diocese
262:Brick,
187:Founded
172:History
142:England
139:Country
125:Haydock
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