'Sell-off' church to spend 600,000 pounds on new administration centre in Salford

Sell churches, buy a new home for Diocesan bureaucrats!

The Diocese claims:
"The purpose of the changes is to ensure that the parishes in the diocese are vibrant communities that enable us to be people of prayer, still proclaiming the Gospel message."

And the list of Churches being sold to buy offices, a training centre, a café and a multi-storey car park. I think it is called losing the plot. If a company constructed a new headquarters and sold all its branches, the share price would nose-dive.

SALFORD:

St. Philip Benizi (1962)
Lower Kersal, M7 0TP

ACCRINGTON:

Sacred Heart (1851, 1869)
Blackburn Road, BB5 0AH.

BOLTON:

Ss. Petr & Paul (1800, 1897)
Pilkington Street, BL3 6HP.

BRIERFIELD:

Holy Trinity (1895, 1896)
Richard Street, BB9 5HZ.

BURY:

St. Bede (1950, 1953)
Fairfield, BL9 7RG.

COLNE:

 

St. Ursula (chapel of ease)
Cotton Tree.

FARNWORTH:

 

St. Gregory the Great (1853, 1875, 1946)
Church Street, BL4 8AQ.

HUNCOAT

Our Lady (1931)

IRLAM: [one of two]

St. Teresa (1874, 1902)
Liverpool Road.
or,
St. Joseph the Worker (1963, 1965)
Cutnook Lane.

MANCHESTER:

St. Malachy (1922, 1930, 1972)
Collyhurst, M10 7RG.

Was used by the Vietnamese Chaplaincy.

St. Michael (1856, 1956)
Ancoats, M4 5DG.

St. Robert (1915, 1929, 1960, 1982)
Longsight,.

St. Vincent de Paul (1896, 1908, 1955)
Openshaw, M11 2FU.

St. Wilfrid (1842, 1948) [??? query]
Hulme, M15 5BZ.

Now an enterprise centre with no respect for the altars of God

MIDDLETON:

St. Agnes (1966, 1968)
Hollins Estate.

STACKSTEADS:

St. Joseph (1892, 1897, 1928, 1953)
Huttock End Lane. OL13 8LD.

STRETFORD:

St. Teresa (1928)
St. Tersa's Road, Firswood.

Cathcon: Update 2023, I will try and add some more photographs.  The stasis of mis-managed post-Conciliar decline.