Places Of Worship In Irlam, Cadishead and Hollins Green.
Places Of Worship In Hollins Green (Rixton)
Places Of Worship In Cadishead
Cadishead Wesley Methodist Church
Cadishead Congregational Church
Places Of Worship In Irlam
St John The Baptist, Irlam Parish Church
Boundary Road Methodist Church
Oldest Church A National Monument
Although Irlam, Cadishead and the immediate surrounding districts took on their present stature mainly through industry and the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal at the turn of the century, and therefore cannot aspire to having many ancient ecclesiastical establishments, they can boast a national monument in St. Helen's Church, Hollinfare.
In fact the church is the oldest in the district, dating back to 1498 when the distinguished Mascy family of Rixton Old Hal, founded it as a chantry chapel — an establishment in which the priests had to sing for the soul of its founder.
St. Helen's later reverted to Protestantism with the advent of the Reformation the son of one of its early vicars, Rev. Collier, came to be known as one of the great Lancashire dialect Writers under the name of Tim Bobbin.
In 1966, while under its present vicar, the Rev. J. A. Orrell, the church, along with Great Woolden Hall on Cadishead Moss, was declared a national monument by the Ministry of Housing.
The Rixton Roman Catholic church, St. Michael's, was established in 1831 through the offices of Dr. Richard Marsh, priest at Woolston Prior, although the church registers date back only to 1856.
First Wesleyan
The first Wesleyan church at Rixton was built in 1843 although a Wesleyan Methodist Society existed there before this date, meetings being held in members' homes. A Primitive Methodist Chapel was built at Glazebrook about 1800 and was followed by a Free Methodist chapel — later called a United Methodist Chapel
About 1900.
The Present establishment at Glazebrook, the Centenary Methodist Church, along with Rixton Methodist Church, is a part of Cadishead Methodist Circuit.
Cadishead Wesley Circuit was actually formed from Leigh in 1872 and consisted of the Cadishead, 'Irlam and Glazebrook churches. Its first, place of worship under the new tide was erected in 1807 — the Sunday School in Lords Street —as before this time public worship took place in members' homes.
The site of the now demolished church in Liverpool Road, Cadishead, erected in1874 at a cost of £3,400 and providing accommodation for 720 worshippers, was given by the late Miss Hardy.
Methodism became established at the Irlam end of the district when St. Paul's in Liverpool Road, opened for worship on March 13, 1912, although traces of earlier organisations, who held meetings in their own houses, have been found. The first chapel, however, was opened on a site at Chapel Road, Irlam, which was donated to the Methodists by James Greaves, of Irlam Hall, in 1853.
When this chapel became inadequate for the growing needs of the district, work commenced on the present building, on Liverpool Road, in 1911.
Roman Catholic
The history of the Roman Catholic community of Irlam, dates back to 1896 when Irlam became a chapel of ease for Urmston with masses being said in the school building.
In 1900 Mrs. Belinda de Trafford died and bequeathed £2,500 for the building of a church, and three years later after much sustained work by the church's first rector, the Rev. Fr. Vanderbeek, St. Teresa's, as it is today, on the front of Liverpool Road, was opened. Last year the church underwent certain internal and external renovation under its present Parish priest, the Rev. Fr. E. McEnery.
St. Teresa's chapel of ease, The Sacred Heart, in Lords Street, Cadishead is also in the charge of Father McEnery, It was opened in 1962 by the then Bishop' of Salford, the Rt. Rev. G. A. Beck. Costing somewhere in the region of £30,000 the church has a Magnificent life-size crucifix on the wall above the altar, sculptured especially for the church
by the Northern Italian artist, Ferdinand Steufiesser. The other Roman Catholic church in the district is that of St , Joseph [lie
Worker, in Cutnook Lane, Irlam, which caters mainly for the Roman Catholics of parts of Higher Irlam and those on the then new Salford Corporation Mossvale Estate in which the church is situated.
St. Joseph's was created as a parish in 1963 in anticipation of the increased population the new estate would bring, but the church hall itself was not opened until May, 1965.
Two C.E. parishes
The Church of England community of Irlam and Cadishead consists of two parishes of St. John the Baptist and St. Mary the Virgin. In the middle half of the 18th Century, Irlam was already growing steadily as a village, and it became necessary for services to be held in the newly-built endowed school, land for which had been donated by John Greaves of Irlam Hall. When John Greaves died in 1848 he left money and land for the erection of a church and vicarage. The present church was consecrated in 1866 to constitute a separate parish including Cadishead, Woolden Moss, Higher and Lower Irlam and Barton Moss.
St. John's covered the Cadishead end of the district until 1891, when a mission chapel, St. Mary's, was built on tile front of Liverpool Road. Work on a church did not begin until 1927, however, and in 1929, the partly-finished church. Consisting of a nave, north and south aisles and a choir section, and costing somewhere in the region of £10,000 was consecrated by the then Bishop of Manchester, Dr. Guy Warman.
Because of the high debt which had to be paid off, however, coupled with the financial and industrial slump of the 1930's and inaction caused by World War 11, no further work was carried out on the church until 1968. The church was finally completed last year, 42 years after work had first started.
Cadishead Pentecostal Church was first established in Cadishead more than 30 years ago but the present building celebrates the 15th anniversary of its opening this month. The building itself was constructed entirely by the congregation of the time.
Salvation Army
The Salvation Army community of the district first moved 47 years ago into a building a few hundred yards along Liverpool Road, Cadishead, from their present headquarters on the old Lime field Farm site. Their headquarters were opened in December, 1965, by Mr. Fred Lee, M.P., after five years' sustained effort by the local corps in raising, the necessary funds. Demolished 2004.
Cadishead Congregational Church first began as a preaching station under the jurisdiction of the Warrington Church in 1875 at the house of a Mrs. Warburton as the result of a plan formulated by the Lancashire Congregational Union some time before.
The present church, however, was .not built until 1883 (at a cost of £550), Doctor McFadyen, chairman of the Congregational Union it the time, conducted the opening services. The Sunday school premises were built in 1931 and the church's primary department was added in 1956 at a cost of £1,000. The church's organ was installed in 1939 at a cost of £400. It was originally intended for delivery to the Gold Coast but the outbreak of war prevented that.