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Church Attractions In Rochdale

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Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines on the River Roch, 5.3 miles northwest of Oldham and 9.8 miles northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, which had a population of 211,699 in 2011.Historically part of Lancashire, Rochdale's recorded history begins with an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086 under Recedham Manor. The ancient parish of Rochdale was a division of the hundred of Salford and one of the largest ecclesiastical parishes in England, comprising several townships. By 1251, Rochdale had become important enough to have been granted a Roya...
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  • 1. Middleton Parish Church Middleton
    Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk 5 miles southwest of Rochdale and 4.4 miles northeast of Manchester city centre. Middleton had a population of 42,972 at the 2011 Census. It lies on the northern edge of Manchester, with Blackley to the south and Moston to the south east. Historically part of Lancashire, Middleton's name comes from it being the centre of several circumjacent settlements. It was an ecclesiastical parish of the hundred of Salford, ruled by aristocratic families. The Church of St Leonard is a Grade I listed building. The Flodden Window in the church's sanctuary is thought to be the oldest war memorial in the United Kingdom, memorialising the archers of Middleton who fought at the Battle of Flodden in 151...
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  • 2. Saint Edmunds Church Rochdale
    Saint Edmund’s Church is a redundant church building located on Clement Royds Street in the Falinge area of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. Commissioned by Rochdale's local industrialist and Freemason Albert Royds, the construction of the building was completed to a high and rich specification in 1873, with an enormous cost of around £25,000 . It is the only known church building in England so overtly dedicated to Masonic symbolism and is therefore unique within English architecture.Art critic Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as Rochdale's temple to Freemasonry, a total concept as exotic as Roslin Chapel in Scotland. Because of the building's craftsmanship, design and prevalent Masonic theme, St Edmund's Church was recorded in he National Heritage List for England as a ...
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