The Church, too, must be a family, bishops, priests, deacons, religious and laity, supporting each other and sharing with each other the individual gifts given by God.
Pope John Paul II,
Heaton Park, Manchester, 31st May 1982

Closed churches & chapels

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Blackburn with Darwen Unitary Authority

Darwen, St William
Now known as St Joseph, Darwen.

Islington, St Mary
The mission was founded in 1859 in an iron chapel. The church was opened in the village in 1865 and was closed in 1987.
Registers are at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Blackburn.

Little Harwood, Our Lady of the Assumption
A church was opened on Rydal Road in 1957 and was closed in 1985.
Registers are at St Alban’s, Blackburn.

Mellor, St Jerome
A church was opened on Abbott Brow in 1970 as a chapel-of-ease to St Mary’s, Osalbaston. It never became independent and closed in 1992.
There are no separate registers.

Shadsworth, Christ the King and St Antony of Padua
The parish was founded in 1959 from St Joseph's Audley in a chapel built in a residential property on Shadsworth Road. The church on North Road was opened in October 1962. The parish became part of the Blackburn Team Ministry in 2001 which was formed into the Holy Family, Blackburn in 2005. The church was closed and demolished in 2008.
Registers are at Holy Family, Blackburn.



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