catholic

August 2026 Cheers to @gba7s and @Urban Nomad for the heads-up on this one. I’ve probably driven past this place 1,000s of times over the years, completely unaware that it’s been out of use since 2013. I think part of the reason for that is the grounds around it have been so well maintained...

I've known about this place for a couple of years now, since I live not there far from here. Well, if you count about half an hour walk as close. It was only recently that I've managed to get to exploring this place, mostly because I almost forgotten about the school dereliction. I couldn't...

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...

Something from my embryonic days as an explorer, from a time not long ago when I didn't know how to use a camera in low light areas and when I had to gather together a group of non-explorer friends together in order to go places. This was something like my 4th explore and I really hadn't gotten...

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...