Event: Rochdale Parish Church open afternoons for visitors Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
Wednesday 18 July 2018 - Thursday 19 July 2018
2.00pm - 4.00pm
Rochdale Parish Church St Chad's
Sparrow Hill
off Drake Street
Rochdale
OL16 1QT
DETAILS:
Rochdale Parish Church, St Chad’s, welcomes drop-in visitors.
The heritage building that tells the story of Rochdale from before 1066 to today, is opening its weekday doors to welcome drop-in visitors.
Rochdale Parish Church, St Chad’s, is open Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, 2-4 pm, until the beginning of September.
Entry is free, and there are printed leaflets and a colorful guidebook.
Volunteers are on duty to show callers the historic features of the town’s oldest building - still serving the Rochdale of today.
Parts of St Chad’s - at the top of the 122 steps up from the Town Hall – date back to the Middle Ages, though it has been built and rebuilt down the generations.
Earliest written evidence is the record of the first Vicar of Rochdale, who served the then huge Lancashire parish from the year 1194.
Overseas visitors are often in Rochdale to trace their family stories, as their ancestors have been baptised or married at the Parish Church.
Of special interest now is the church’s 1914-18 Great War memorial, listing the names of local men lost in the fighting in France and Gallipoli.
Contact: Norman Frisby
01706 644224