Union Street Church
Introduction
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Union Street Church
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 25 Feb 2019
The Oldham Congregational Church was founded in 1816 with 18 members from several of the neighbouring churches, but didn’t have a building of its own (the Queen Street Chapel was built in 1823). The current church building opened for worship in 1855 (http://oldhamurc.org.uk/about/ Oldham URC “about us”). The Sunday School building opened in 1877 and was notable as the first in the country to use voluntary teachers following a decision that the Sunday teaching should be based on scripture and not the three R’s. The Sunday School building was demolished in the early 1970s and the land sold to finance extensions to the church building. In 1972 the Congregational church joined with the English Presbyterian church to become the United Reformed Church. The church, viewed here from Gallery Oldham (Image]), is a Grade II listed building (Historic England List Entry Number: 1282575 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1282575 ). It is also used by the Methodist church
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Image Location
Latitude
53.540784
Longitude
-2.109663