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History - This grade 2 listed church was designed by architect George Edmund Street and built in 1869. It closed in 1966 and reopened as a Ukranian Catholic church in 1967. The church was forced to close in December 2021 due to subsidence and problems with the roof. Explore - This place has...

History of St John Fisher Catholic School St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School, located in Chatham, Kent, is a unique 11-18 mixed Roman Catholic school and sixth form. It first opened its doors in 1964 and stands out as the only Catholic secondary school in the Medway area. In March...

St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School, Chatham, Kent - January 2024 St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School is a mixed gender Catholic Comprehensive school based in Rochester, Kent. It was opened in 1964, it is the only catholic school within the local authority, and was the only...

This place is very local to us and is one we have checked from time to time over the past couple of years so when we saw @MotionlessMike had done it we had to go for a look. There has been a church on this site since the 1880's, the original church being corrugated iron. The existing building...

Built originally as the ‘Church of All Saints’ in 1869 to designs by architect George Edmund Street at a cost of £4,000. The church seated 630 people and replaced an earlier place of worship which dated back to 1726. It closed in 1966 and was converted into a Ukrainian Catholic church which then...

Twelve Apostles Catholic Church, Leigh, Wigan - January 2024 A small catholic church in the Leigh area of Wigan which was built between 1927 - 1929 to designs by Manchester architect William Ellis and finally closed in August 2019 due dwindling congregation numbers and a shortage of clergy...

Brief history Built in 1896 this was the first catholic church in the area and cost just over £20,200 which was a monumental amount at the time (around $3.3million in today's money) and would take 30 years to be paid off. The church could seat around 800 people but would require the need for...

Built in 1897 at a cost of £20,000 to the designs of architects Sinnott, Sinnott & Powell who were responsible for a number of Roman Catholic churches in the North West. Some details from taking-stock.org; [...]a prominent building with a tall tower and a large presbytery, which forms part of...

Tong college Been covered a few times this but not for several years, its a bit of a state compared to its former self for sure but is still a bit photogenic. Cant believe the place is still here tbh. Martyrs Catholic College, in Westgate Hill Street, Tong closed in the summer of 2010 and...

St John Fisher Catholic School, Medway, Kent - September 2023 There is something quite interesting about derelict Mid Century Schools. Maybe its because I attended one (though not a Catholic one), and often thought about how brutal and oppressive the masses of concrete and angular corridors...

St Vincent's Catholic Church and Presbytery I have been looking through places that aren't particularly special but still deserve to be posted and this church in Cork is one of those. One afternoon on our quick weekend trip to Cork Alex and I came across it by accident. Our curiosity got the...

St John Fisher Catholic Comprehensive School was of two schools in Chatham that moved to Rochester to combine the two schools into one site, this one is the larger one, among its former students are ballroom dancer and tv presenter, james jordan and retired footballer, jimmy corbett who played...

The church was originally established in 1873 in a tin chapel opposite the current building. The current building was built in 1908 from designs by Matthew Honan. Honan’s drawings survive in the diocesan archives. A note on one of them states that the church was designed to seat 500 and that the...

This was a post breakfast local find just moments after leaving the hotel. I had a dig around and can't find much about it. It was once a boarding school for orphaned children who were in need of Christian education. Pretty empty and not much to see. But fantastic there are little places like...

The History St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church has been derelict since the last mass took place in October 1995 - In 1877, the second designed rebuild was done by Mr. Goldie, of the firm of Messrs - Goldie & Child, London. Originally, The first service was held on 22nd January, 1871, in a small...

We had some time and this place is very close to us so we decided to re-visit with our camera's. The first time we explored this place was a few years ago with only our phone camera's so have never posted the results of that explore. Always wanted to go back with a decent camera and finally got...

I did not even know about this place till someone who lived near it posted a few pics on a Norfolk FB page. Me and my mate started a hunt for it. It was a bit of a job to find it but we did in the end. Hidden well in a massive woodland it's a unique little place, and when I say small it's...

Dalle de Verre “Glass Slab” Right, so... St Raphael is one of the seven Archangels and the patron saint of travelers, the blind, poorly people, happy meetings, nurses, physicians and medical workers. Basically, when Boris Johnson claps for the NHS and doesn't give nurses a pay rise, St...

the exploreSt Joseph’s college is probably one of my favourite and I steer sting explores to date.i have visited this place a few times in the day and night.these pictures are from my first explore here in the day back in April 2019. So me and a couple of friends arrived here one weekday morning...

Many a report has been done on this school but I wanted to see it for myself. You can tell its had its fare amount to fires and at least 30 percent of the building was burnt out, yet still standing... It has been the subject of Arson the past few years. The School was quite big and managed to...