A Centenary Celebration On 14th June 2025 St. John the Baptist Church will be one hundred years old. To celebrate the centenary of our church, Bishop John Arnold, Bishop of Salford, will celebrate Mass for us on Pentecost Sunday 8th…
PROJECT UPDATE Now our work with the National Lottery Heritage Fund has been completed we have produced an Evaluation of the work that has been done on the Delivery phase of the project. This covers the period of the capital…
You may remember that work to repair the dome and the mosaic of St John’s finished in May last year. During the following year we have had a few issues: the damp has been soaking through the concrete as we…
One hundred years ago on 28 July 1923 the foundation stone for St John the Baptist was laid by Bishop Casartelli in the sanctuary of the church. To mark the centenary of this important event in the life of our…
St John the Baptist Church on 5 March 2023, St John’s reopened for Masses and other services. This marked the completion of a significant building project to repair the grade II* listed building following support from a range of grant…