Sacred Heart, Walmsley Road, Leigh
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Sacred Heart, Walmsley Road, Leigh
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 28 Apr 2018
The first church here was opened in 1904. The present church on Walmsley Road Image was built on land to the south of that in 1928. The original church was used until recent times as a school but has now been demolished. Restoration work took place in the 1970s and 1990s. http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Archdiocese-of-Liverpool/Leigh-Sacred-Heart The church is in the parish of St Edmund Arrowsmith.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.498706
Longitude
-2.5223