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Goodshaw Baptist - The New Church
(formerly the Sunday School)
Burnley
Road, Crawshawbooth
The
foundation stone for the new Church, which was designed
to hold eight hundred people, was laid by Henry Kelsall
J.P., of Rochdale on Good Friday 1864 and the Church was
opened by the Rev. J.P. Chown of Bradford in April 1865.
A Day and Sunday School, which were added in 1875, were
completely destroyed by fire in January 1886. The school
was rebuilt and re-opened in March 1887. The church
building was used until the late 1950s, when because of
a crumbling structure and dry rot it was decided to
convert the Sunday School into a church and the original
church was demolished in October 1961. |
