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- St Edmund Arrowsmith
- St John Southworth
- St Ambrose Barlow
- St John Plessington
- Bl. Thomas Cottam
- Bl. John Nutter
- Bl. William Thomson
- Bl. William Marsden and Bl. Robert Anderton
- Bl. Edward Osbaldeston
- Bl. Robert Nutter
- Bl. John Thules and Ven. Roger Wrenno
- Bl. Thomas Whittaker
- Bl. John Woodcock
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Closed churches & chapels |
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.





