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Other Places of Worship in this Area Newent, Glebe Chapel (Gospel Hall) (0.11m.) Newent, Watery Lane Cemetery (0.19m.) Newent, Good News Centre (0.22m.) Newent, Newent United Reformed Church (0.26m.) Newent, Former Wesley Chapel (0.31m.) Newent, St Mary's Church (now St Mary's United Church) (0.34m.) Oxenhall, St Anne's Church (0.55m.) Kilcot, Newent, Kilcot Baptist Chapel (Demolished) (1.64m.) Taynton, Wesleyan Chapel (1.84m.) Gorsley, Newent, Christ Church (1.99m.) Oxenhall, Four Oaks Baptist Church (2.03m.) Cliffords Mesne, St Peter's Church (2.1m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

We have 2 Images Above Photograph(s) Copyright of Rosemary Lockie Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Newent Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Ross Road, Newent, Gloucestershire. Cemeteries We believe the Church does NOT have a graveyard. Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all. Church History This Place of Worship was founded in 1939, and we understand it is still open. The foundations of the present day Catholic Church in Newent were laid in 1935, when "the Salesian Fathers came to Blaisdon Hall and four years later they opened a Mass Centre in the house of Mr and Mrs Clifford Deacon at the Scarr". Services were transferred to the Market House in 1943, when congregations included Italian and German prisoners of War. Planning for the present church building began in 1952, with the appointment of Father W. Boyd. Funds were raised and a plot of land on Ross Road was bought from Mr Andrew Ford, who had previously operated a cider business from there. The site included 2 old sheds, one of which was made of fragments from the old Workhouse and its doors retained metal peepholes. "Much of the brickwork was done by a former pupil of Blaisdon, Billy Udell, helped in the later stages by the more experienced Norman Marcovecchio". The opening ceremony took place in December 1959, completion of the building being in the following year. [Source: Chapters in Newent's History, published by Newent Local History Society (2003), p.197] Denomination Now or formerly Roman Catholic. If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication. Maps This Church is located at OS grid reference SO7183926166. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Newent shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Newent shown on a Google Map. Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15) Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13) Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15) Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15) OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15) A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15) www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15) Information last updated on 11 May 2012 at 07:59.

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This Report was created 17 Nov 2024 - 14:30:30 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:13.