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24-457: All Souls Church , All Soul's Chapel , and variations, may refer to: United Kingdom [ edit ] Church of All Souls, Bolton All Souls' Church, Halifax All Souls Church, Hastings All Souls' Church, Blackman Lane All Souls Church, Langham Place All Souls Chapel (Cardiff) (demolished) United States [ edit ] All Souls Church (Scott, Arkansas) , listed on

48-616: A business and community centre, managed by a small charity set up for this purpose, known as All Souls Bolton. Redundant church Reasons for redundancy include population movements, changing social patterns, merging of parishes, and decline in church attendance (especially in the Global North ). Historically, redundant churches were often demolished or left to ruin . Today, many are repurposed as community centres, museums or homes, and are demolished only if no alternative can be found. Although church buildings fall into disuse around

72-417: A decline in the resident population. The square mile City of London has only a few thousand permanent residents—far smaller than its historic population, as most workers now commute from outside its boundaries—leaving many redundant churches there. About 20 to 25 Church of England churches are declared closed for regular public worship each year. They are demolished only as a last resort. Some active use

96-522: A good view of the proceedings, and an opportunity to hear the sermon . The contractors were Cordingley and Stopford of Manchester . The church was consecrated in 1881 by Dr J. Fraser , Bishop of Manchester . Few changes have been made to the church since then. A war memorial was added to commemorate the parishioners who had died serving in the First World War. All Souls is constructed in brick with dressings of Longridge sandstone . The interior

120-458: Is a frieze and a three-light traceried window. The north porch is gabled . The second stage contains a round window. In the third stage are two small windows and a three-light bell opening containing Perpendicular tracery. Around the top of the tower is a traceried parapet with crocketed pinnacles at the corners. The nave is divided into bays by buttresses and at the corners of the east end are octagonal pinnacles with crocketted caps. In

144-541: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Church building disambiguation pages Church of All Souls, Bolton The Church of All Souls is a redundant Anglican church in Astley Street, Astley Bridge, Bolton , Lancashire , England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building , and

168-413: Is dressed with Stourton stone. The roofs are of slate . Its plan consists of a five- bay nave , a two-bay chancel with a canted apse , an organ chamber to the north, and a chapel and vestry to the south, and a west tower with a protruding north porch and stair turret . There are no aisles . The tower has four stages. It is 118 feet (36 m) high. In the lowest stage is a west door over which

192-462: Is in stone, and consists of traceried panels, the outer ones of which are inscribed with prayers and other text. The reredos and the font were designed by John Roddis of Birmingham . The choir stalls, pews, organ case, altar, communion rails, credence table, and pulpit are in oak and were all designed by the architects. The stained glass in the apse depicts scenes from the New Testament . It

216-443: Is made of about half of the closed churches. 1795 were closed between 1969 and 2010, or about 11% of existing churches, with about 1/3 listed as Grade I or II. (Of these, only 514 were built later than 1989.) Only 20% were demolished, of which 75% were unlisted. The aim of the closure process is to find new uses for the structures, for which the diocese is responsible. Some closed churches remain consecrated for occasional use by

240-513: Is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust . As of 2010, the church is being converted into a community centre. The church was built between 1878 and 1881 and paid for by Thomas Greenhalgh, an Evangelical mill-owner. Thomas inherited the money from his brother Nathaniel, who had died in 1877, aged 60. It was one of two churches in the area financed from this inheritance, the other being St Saviour's . The total cost of

264-695: The 20th century the size of the local population was declining, and in 1962 the parish was combined with that of St James in Waterloo Road. In 1970 the stained glass windows in the tower were removed. They had depicted the Creation and were made by Shrigley and Hunt , but had been damaged by vandalism. The church closed in 1986 and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust. The building has since been redeveloped and in December 2014 opened as

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288-929: The Church of England. Some are purchased by other denominations or faiths for regular use. Several charitable trusts preserve churches of architectural merit, such as the Churches Conservation Trust in England, and the Friends of Friendless Churches in Wales (which also maintains a number of churches in England). Historic Churches Scotland cares for several former Church of Scotland church buildings. Depending on their listed status, many closed churches can be converted to other uses. Several are used as community and education centres—for example, All Saints' Church, Bristol and All Saints Church, Harthill . In Chester , Holy Trinity Church now serves as

312-804: The NRHP All Souls Church (Braintree, Massachusetts) All Souls Church (Plainfield, New Jersey) , listed on the NRHP in New Jersey Unitarian Church of All Souls , New York City, New York All Souls Church (Tannersville, New York) , listed on the NRHP in New York All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish House (Asheville, North Carolina) , listed on the NRHP in North Carolina All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Church , listed on

336-684: The NRHP in Arkansas All Souls Universalist Church (Riverside, California) , as listed on the National Register of Historic Places All Souls Catholic Church (Sanford, Florida) , a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando All Souls Church (Augusta, Maine) All Souls Congregational Church (Bangor, Maine) , listed on the NRHP in Maine All Souls Chapel (Poland Spring, Maine) , listed on

360-473: The NRHP in Ohio All Souls Unitarian Church , Tulsa, Oklahoma All Souls Church, Unitarian (Washington, D.C.) All Souls' Episcopal Church, Belle Isle neighborhood of Miami Beach , Florida Elsewhere [ edit ] All Souls' Chapel (Prince Edward Island) , a National Historic Site of Canada All Souls' Church, Cameron Highlands , Pahang, Malaysia Topics referred to by

384-421: The bays are two tiers of three-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. The windows in the chapels are flat-headed. In the chancel the windows are in two tiers, with one of four lights and two of two lights. A parapet decorated with a quatrefoil frieze runs round the top of the chancel. The interior is constructed without any pillars, making it a single, undivided space, with a span of 52 feet (16 m), one of

408-485: The church, including fittings, the stained glass, the organ, and the boundary walls, was £23,000 (equivalent to £2,930,000 in 2023). The local population had grown during the second half of the 19th century, and the church was intended to serve the people working in the nearby mills. It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin . The church was planned to seat a congregation of about 800, giving them all

432-450: The grade-I-listed St Ninian's, Brougham , a Churches Conservation Trust church—the building's remote location makes alternative use impractical. The popularity of Methodism and other non-conformist churches in the 19th century has left many chapel buildings which cannot be sustained. At their height, various Methodist factions ran about 14,000 chapels in the UK. With declining attendance, in 2002

456-660: The number of regular Sunday worshippers, which has steadily fallen since the late 1980s, to about 1.7m in 2008, and 1.11m in 2019 (before the covid pandemic in the UK distorted figures). Other reasons include the amalgamation of parishes ; or a preference for another building where two churches are in close proximity, for example at Swaffham Prior , Cambridgeshire. Population shift is another factor. For example, many redundant churches were formerly maintained in deserted or shrunken medieval villages (such as Wharram Percy in Yorkshire ). Others are located in town centres that have seen

480-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title All Souls Church . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_Souls_Church&oldid=1227050285 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

504-601: The town's Guildhall , and St Michael's Church as a heritage centre . St Peter's Church, Offord D'Arcy , managed by the Churches Conservation Trust, is used to host festivals, including a film festival. Others buildings are used in more unusual ways. Old St Ann's Church, Warrington is an indoor climbing centre (one of several churches used in this way). Others are art galleries, coffee shops, and even pubs and clubs (e.g. High Pavement Chapel in Nottingham). Many are converted into residential properties. In some cases—such as

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528-443: The widest for a parish church in England. It was built in this way to give the congregation an excellent view of the chancel from the nave, and the ability to hear the sermon clearly. At the west end is a small gallery. To provide the wide interior, the timber roof has a complex structure with rib vaulting . The vaulting is carried on octagonal shafts between the windows. On the sides of the chancel are two-bay arcades . The reredos

552-592: The world, the term "redundancy" was particularly used by the Church of England , which had a Redundant Churches Division. As of 2008, it instead refers to such churches as "closed for regular public worship", and the Redundant Churches Division became the Closed Churches Division. Church buildings in England may be declared redundant for a number of reasons, but it is primarily due to a reduction in

576-449: Was designed by the architects and made by Clayton and Bell . The windows are dedicated to the memory of Thomas Greenhalgh's brother, Nathaniel. The stained glass in the east chancel windows is dated 1887 and depicts Faith and Hope; it was made by Burlison and Grylls . The two- manual organ was built in 1881 by Isaac Abbott of Leeds . There is a ring of eight bells, all cast in 1881 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough . During

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