CAVEAT: es Built in Blackpool By Date 1. There are discrepancies between the range of sources, especially with reference to Establishment and building dates. 2. Some addresses may be duplicated in the list where churches have moved location or changed name. 3. Some information about building and opening dates and location have not been found, but the churches mentioned are all referred to within the sources. Area Name Denom. Location Estab/Built / Opened Notes Marton St Paul's C of E Honister Ave 1802 St Johns of Street 1821 Established 1820 Rebuilt 1878 Revoe Bethesda Congregational Kent Road 1825 Bethesda Congregational Chapel and its burial ground were opened 6th of July in Lower Street, near Nelsons Row (Bethesda Road). In 1900 Bethesda Chapel was rebuilt & closed end of the 1970s. Moved to the Primitive church on the corner of Lune Grove and (now Grasmere) Road. Closed 2010. Chapel St Independent (Later Primitive ) Chapel St 1826 Closed 1849 Bispham Bispham Bispham s Bethel Independent Chapel Beaufort Avenue 1834 Independent 1834 Closed 1912
Trinity United Free Bank Hey Street Holy Trinity Victoria Street Independent Adelaide St 1835 Became Adelaide Street Trinity United in 1881. Closed before 1980 Bank Hey St 1835 Closed 1862. Replaced 1861 of Dean Street 1836 rebuilt in 1895 Congregational Victoria St 1849 Demolished to build Hounds Hill Shopping. Transferred to Victoria Congregational. Beech St Beech St 1852 Sacred Heart RC Talbot Road 1854 Established in 1851. Enlarged 1857. Designed by Pugin Abingdon Street Union Union Chapel Adelaide St Ebenezer Free United United Free Abingdon St 1861 Closed 1903. Abingdon Street 1861 Adelaide St 1862 Closed 1972. Recorded in Adelaide Place in 1858 Slaters Directory Rawcliffe St 1862 Later formed Rawcliffe St Adelaide St 1864 Upper Adelaide St 1864
Staining St Luke C of E Staining Rd 1865 Christ of Layton Marton Marton Christadelphian Meeting Layton Hill Convent Blowing Sands Moss Side Banks Street Unitarian Bolton Street Unitarian Free Queen Street 1866 Established 1861. Closed 1982 Christadelphian Bolton Street 1870 Recorded in 1870 RC St Walburgas Rd U/k 1871 Chapel Road 1872 Closed 1975 1870 Society of the Holy Child Jesus established the school and chapel. The order was established in a Convent and school in Queens Square in 1856.(Moore) Unitarian Banks St 1873 Closed 1975. Est 1873, rebuilt 1883 Bolton St 1873 Unitarian Dickson Rd 1873 The first building was a former Anglican School, then the pavilion on Pier, and later a large room in the Winter gardens were used. A new church was opened in Aug 1883. Layton Blackpool (Layton) Mortuary Chapels Mount Pleasant Trinity C of E, RC, Non- Conformist, Talbot Rd 1873 Originally there were 3 chapels, Anglican, Catholic and Non-Conformist but only the Anglican remains Dickson Road 1875 Became
Drive Independent Dr 1876 New church 1925 St Cuthbert RC Lytham Road 1880 Bispham All Hallows C of E All Hallows Rd 1883 on the site since pre 1140 Grosvenor St Grosvenor St 1886 Became and Sunday school on Raikes Parade in 1886 Raikes Parade Raikes Parade 1886 Closed 2003 Dickson Road Rawcliffe Street Alexandra Rd Congregational Ebenezer United Hebrew Congregation Dickson Rd 1888 Rawcliffe Street Congregational Alexandra Rd 1890 Primitive Egerton Rd 1890 Closed 1971 1889 Established 1869. Closed 1971 Demolished for redevelopment Hebrew Leamington Rd 1890 Originally met in a private house, then a synagogue was built in Springfield Road. The Leamington Road Synagogue was consecrated in 1916. New Swedenborgian Reads Ave 1890 Springfield Rd New Connexion Springfield Rd 1890 AKA United Chapel
Bispham Thornto n Shaw Rd United Free Lytham Rd Unitarian Unitarian Free Claremont Cavendish Rd Congregational Spiritualist Newton Drive New Connexion. s New Connexion Claremont Congregational of Sunday School Shaw Rd 1891? Later Bible Pattern Closed Unitarian Lytham Road 1894 Unitarian Lytham Road 1894 Meeting in the Masonic Hall, until a church was opened 19 Jul 1903. 1894 AKA The Tin Tabernacle Congregational Cavendish Rd 1895 Recorded in 1895 Spiritualist Albert Road 1896 Newton Drive 1896 closed Maybell Ave/ Abingdon St 1897 Congregational Warley Rd 1897? This building later became Kings C of E Drill Hall, Yorkshire Street St Paul's C of E Egerton Road 1898 AKA The Tin opened in 1895 1898 Sacred Heart RC Heys Street 1898
All Saints C of E Palatine Rd 1898 Originally an iron building, it was opened in 1898 and the new building in 1904. Bispham Bispham Cleveley s Marton Moister Rd Alexandra Rd Beaufort Ave Cleveleys Congregational Unitarian Crossland Road Moister Rd 1899 Alexandra Rd 1902 Beaufort ave 1902 Congregational Kensington Rd 1902 Unitarian U/k 1902 C of E Crossland Rd off Hawes Side Lane St Kentigern RC Newton Dr 1904 New church on Newton Drive opened 1932 Catholic Apostolic Tabernacle RC Queen Victoria Road Springfield Road 1904 1904 Currently Queen Victoria Road New Life Community 1904 Blackpool, Tabernacle - Formally Established 16 Sep 1858. Site for chapel obtained on Abingdon St and a chapel was opened 9 Apr 1860 from 1899, services were held in the Opera House. A new site was obtained, but it was decided that rebuilding on the Abingdon St site would be better. However, the Government purchased the Abingdon St site for a Post Office and the new site had to be used. The new chapel, Tabernacle, was opened 1 Mar 1895.
St Thomas' of Revoe Revoe Cleveley s Cleveley s Dickson Rd Unitarian Grasmere Road Primitive St Andrew's Cleveleys Park First of Christ Scientist Forest Gate St Peter's Caunce Street 1905 Unitarian Dickson Rd 1906 Grasmere Road 1906 Closed. AKA Lune Grove C of E Ibbison Street 1906 AKA The Tin West Drive 1907 Christian Science Egerton Rd 1910 Forest Gate 1910 Established in 1909 and at that time Forest Gate was called Hornby Road East. A new, larger church was added to the site in 1927 and it was known as 'Whitegate Drive '. Later in 1925 the Gordon Memorial C of E Lytham Road 1910 is mentioned in Slaters Directory of 1898 St Andrews C of E Rossall Rd 1910 New Jerusalem Stanley Road 1910 Layton Station Road Station Rd/ Bond St Salem s Primitive s Westcliffe Drive 1910 1910 AKA The Iron
Highfield Scarsdale Ave (formerly Highfield Ave), 1911 Opened 1938 Layton St Marks C of E Westcliffe Dr 1911 A mission church opened in 1905 Whitegate Drive Bond Street Whitegate Dr 1911 Bond Street 1913 Closed and demolished. The foundation stone was laid in 1909, The cost of building and site was 8,500. In 1915 a new organ was added. Squires Gate First of Christ Scientist Waterloo Rd Free Unitarian Christian Scientist Hornby Rd/Park Rd Unitarian (free) Waterloo Rd 1914 St Mary C of E Stoneycroft Ave Waterloo Rd St Stephen's on the Cliffs' Gospel Hall 1913 Now the site of the SJAB HQ. Later built in 1929 opened on Whitegate Dr 1920 Waterloo Rd 1924 C of E Holmfield Road, 163a St 1929 Holy Family Links Rd 1929 Holy Cross Society of Friends of Quaker 1927 A mission was established in 1910 Dr 1931 Established in 1907. 26, Caunce Street 1932
Theosophical Lodge Street 1932 Cleveley s Cleveleys Congregational Congregational Rossall Rd 1932 Victory St Annes Rd 1932 The Victory on St Annes Road was built on the site of earlier tent meetings. Known as the Bethel Evangelical Fellowship, it was built by the brother of George Jefferies, who had built the Elim church on Waterloo Road. Later the building was a Moravian church, and then a of the Nazarene. In 1987, the building became the St Annes Road or Victory. Marton Cleveley s Marton Moss Unity Progressive Spiritual Elim Pentecostal St John Vianney Collingwood Ave Christadelphian Lindale Spiritualist Portland Rd 1933 Pentecostal Waterloo Rd 1935 RC Christadelphian Glastonbury Avenue Collingwood Ave 1936 Established 1934, new church opened 1960 1937 Lindale Ave 1937 St Teresa RC St. George s Avenue. St Nicholas' of 1937 U/k 1937
Cleveley s Anchorsholme s Plymouth Brethren 7th Day Adventist Independent Chapel Drive 1938 Plymouth Brethren 7th Day Adventist 163, Street Bolton St? Bonneys Lane Citadel Salvation Army Coronation Street Hounds Hill Dickson Road Independent Hesketh Road St Joseph RC Levens Grove Closed 1988. Gospel Hall Salthouse Ave Queenstown St.Joseph's Road Strict Waterloo Avenue Free Christian New Road Nondenominational Nondenominational Waterloo Road U/k
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