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An account of the background to, and the story of, St. Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham the Diocese of

his book outlines the history of Christianity in the English East Midlands Nottingham (including Lincolnshire) from its beginnings in the fourth century Tuntil the Reformation in the sixteenth. From this point onwards, it deals specifically with the story of Catholic Christianity leading tothe establishment of the Diocese of Nottingham in 1850. Brief biographies of the Bishops of Nottingham are followed by accounts of each of the parishes of the diocese; these take up the major part of the book. In addition to the diocesan (or secular) clergy, the diocese has been served, at various times, by members of some fifty Religious Congregations of men and women. An outline of their origins, specific charisms and work in the diocese leads onto a consideration of saints and other holy people connected with the Diocese of Nottingham. The post-World War Two era has seen many significant developments, and some of these are now listed.

Designed & Produced by R.R.P. £25.00£20.00 Compiled by ISBN XXX-X-XXXXXX-XX-X Anthony P. Dolan TUCANNbooks Unit 9, Blackthorn Way Priest of the Diocese St Hugh of Lincoln Five Mile Business Park of Nottingham Washingborough, Lincoln LN4 1BF t: 01522 790009 • e: [email protected]

hen the lay-led appeal for the Sick and Retired Priests Fund was launched nearly Wfive years ago, it was suggested that, at the same time, a project should be adopted to support the missionary work of the Church in the Diocese of Nottingham. The subject chosen was ‘An account of the background to, and the story of, the Diocese of Nottingham.’ Canon Anthony Dolan, a retired priest of the diocese, was approached and readily agreed to compile such an account with the sole aim of assisting the missionary work of the Church. In the Introduction to this account, Canon Dolan writes: ‘If even a few people come to appreciate something about the wonders God has worked through Christians in the East Midlands over the past millennium and a half and are perhaps led to a knowledge and love of him, the time and energy which have gone into the compilation of this story will be, for the compiler, a more than sufficient reward.’ All those involved in producing this book hope it will be a useful resource for religious communities, parishes, and Catholic societies, and of interest to many ecumenical friends and to others in the Nottingham Diocese and beyond. 370+ pages full colour throughout

paint- was adorned with mural 1896. In 1936 the sanctuary Christ was opened in local martyrs, and with More, John Fisher and ings of Saints Thomas the King over the chancel arch; these have since been coveredas an independentor removed. intended to establish Broadbottom came The Restoration of the Hierarchy It was at first in 1895, and a succession of the Midland District in the Cath- to reside near the chapel of the Vicars-Apostolic left system of governance parish. A priest was sent date the slump in the The first seven landed gentry; they September 1850 the normal and Wales, up until 1915. After that the Catholic peerage and n 29 creation, in CHARLESWORTH priests kept to maintain its the highest level of devotion to duty; was restored with the of missionary for the congregation from piety and conscientious olic Church dioceses. One of these made it impossible to them a tradition of solid in the saddle, (Westminster) and twelve (Broadbottom) Immaculate Conception cotton industry to the status of chapel-of-ease behind lives were spent largely of an archdiocese and the Mission reverted to raise that was notable. Their that – served from Hadfield own priest, attempt was made in 1920 they did little to the other. Of the stories year until 1953. Some from one isolated Mission one Owas the Diocese of Nottingham. Hadfield from that money was collected, way necessary making their the Diocese of Nottingham, and a part of the them with reference to - funds for a presbytery as an independent Mission can be related about the third of the Vicars-Ap Broadbottom John Hornyold, Dioceses of England and Wales 1850 chapel-of-ease within but the project of re-establishing Broadbottom was served may be of particular interest. at Grantham. One his From 1953 to 1971 in the 1730s, stationed of Hadfield is not realised at that time. became was, as a young priest - Beehive Inn the Parish was In the latter year Broadbottom ostolic next to the - still existent curious , St. Mary Crowned. in Gamesley, saying Mass in a room throwing an in the somewhat from was built in 1980 day he was He escaped arrest by the Diocese parish, and a presbytery has came to arrest him. of of lying within an independent Broadbottom/Charlesworth when the constable in the room in an attitude Tposition a estate. Since 1999 himself and kneeling but serving a nearby post-war old woman’s cloak over of Nottingham, almost exclusively been served from Hadfield. This is now the erection of congregation drawn School was built at Gamesley. prayer. Act of 1791 legalised of Shrewsbury. The St. Margaret’s Primary Second Catholic Relief chapels in from the Diocese The or bells. The first of these of Broadbottom All Saints Primary School, Old Glossop. – without steeples 1793, is Administrative Parish federated with Catholic chapels Rasen, built in the Chapel of near Market the County of Cheshire; at Osgodby is itself situated in the Diocese of Nottingham, with County of , still in use in 2018. was appointed eighth is situated in the of a Lancashire tailor, the Immaculate Conception flowing beneath its very John Milner, son was very different the county boundary, District in 1803. He River Etherow, marking come down from the of the Midland of his mission the of Catholics who Vicar-Apostolic predecessors, and part Except for a small number comes from and style from his after all, walls. most of the congregation in background the towns; this was, village of Charlesworth, bring Catholicism into his Derbyshire St. Patrick & St. as he saw it was to twenty-three years of in Revolution. During the Broadbottom and Mottram in the Diocese of Shrewsbury.late eighteenth century Bridget – served age of the Industrial in the development Broadbottom during the the the significant factors Mass was said in 1875 in the committee from Alfreton in the Midlands, among was Bostock, and from ministry the Diocese of Nottingham belonging to Charles of some sort was in what was later to become the year property Store. A Mass centre of Catholicism the Revolution. In 1826, the village Co-operative of Hadfield in priests in exile after the room of Herman Sabela the number of French priests working in in Charlesworth by Monsignor Howard nine of the twenty-five first opened was presented by Lord of Bishop Milner’s death, émigrés. Bishop the site of the chapel by of Nottingham were French 1894. Later in 1894, The church was opened at the later Diocese the Catholics of Not- began that summer. territory sending to minister to of Glossop, and building was also responsible for work much August 1896. Milner Willson about whose Bishop Bagshawe on 26 of the River Etherow, in 1825 one Robert William as it setting on the banks tingham early or “Popish Chapel” The church is in a rural The attrac- to building the church commuters to . sufficient indication of could be said. In addition Barnabas’ Cathedral,) now popular with include a of this Mission is been known as St. below the village, Sabela in the 1890s very Irish dedication the bituminous called (since 1850 it has laid out by Monsignor he congregation. When was then tive wooded grounds facing the road and of its original that a and on a rockery plinth the nationality in the 1840s, it seems Fr. Willson became, in 1842, first Bishop of Hobart Town,Walsh, Tasmania. the ninth of the Sacred Heart mounted was first worked succeeded by Bishop Thomas statue coal of Clay Cross Others came later Bishop Milner was development, in 1840, with a sinkers came from Ireland. A significant further a stone-built grotto over a spring. for its little altered interior number of pit were able to the Vicars-Apostolic. ten years local landmark, notable Mr. Tconsiderable in 1847. These immigrants last of the Catholic Hierarchy The church is a The architect was were opened passed to the Restoration of of Cheltenham. when the ironworks to the north. When this which would lead in 1688 into eight. of Gothic altars by Boulton Storrs of Staly- Hall, three miles the four Districts established fine set contractors Messrs. hear Mass at being by a Mass centre was the subdivision of split between of Manchester, and the was kept in later, of Nottingham was now Oswald Hill times, its altars are somewhat Catholic hands, the congregation for the of the future Diocese with the taste of the - out of and the problem of providing The territory bridge. In accordance the colourful murals exe This closed in 1858 - has been maintained in at Birdholme. the Eastern District to which Lincolnshire and RutlandDerbyshire were andassigned, Leicester and and this tendency the church in 1937. got Nottinghamshire, ornate, at the decoration of congregation living in Clay Cross became acute. the Central District which of the Central District, by Mr. A. Jarvis of Stockport before the chapel the first Vicar-Apostolic cuted fittings was all paid off Bishop Walsh became of the consecration of the original fabric and shire. in 1844, the year Mass centre The cost God through the his residence to Nottingham in 1848, Bishop in 1848. In this year the the Kingdom of moving to the London District with Leek ceased way of life was to promote Church. Transferred The connection of New Mills. This arrangement of this new of St. Barnabas’ and has been Fr. John Joseph Collins of Nottingham in 1967, was taken over by changed dramatically. Eucharist. This approach is what made his proposalto the Diocese original. of Nottingham Walsh died the following year. by the Diocese usage. This But then the situation Fathers came was acquired of its new for the next four years. and Connor, came The Blessed Sacrament In the Braunstone to meet the requirements lasted the Diocese of Down Religious Congregations in the Diocese by Bishop McNulty. modified somewhat as were the parish primary Edward McGreavy, of that, in response to an invitation Sacrament, residence was fixed, In 1850 Fr. which was so severe of Nottingham in 1935 the Parish of the Blessed where the priest’s (the latter opened in a cure for his rheumatism His they established Only the was the secondary school to Buxton seeking order to move about. area of Leicester and a novitiate. opened in 1965, and who was and a bath-chair in of the Blessed Sacrament, in school – Blessed Robert Sutton, first, he needed crutches for the Catholic has been served, together with a Shrine directly in ministry to the priest-martyr at did, he began to say Mass the Diocese of Nottingham priest were involved 1964 and dedicated improved and, as it later, at the ince its erection in 1850, by more than priest and the assistant the rota of health soon at 10 or 12 West Street; wide variety of locations, parish and novices maintained born in Burton-on-Trent). initially at his house in the capacities and in a far as has The other priests, brothers visitors to Buxton times Mass was said in various follows is a brief and, as the parish. in High Street. At other Congregations. What their estab- of Mr. Robert Nall in Buxton - in Spring fifty Religious – their origin, Eucharistic Adoration. who had meanwhile house only Catholic resident of these Congregations Sacrament Fathers, BURTON-ON-TRENT – Convent Mr. Anzani - then the Mass made possible, accurate account worked. Under 1990 the Blessed and the parish house of wishing to attend Sbeen in which they have In withdrew from Braunstone private school the greater numbers areas of the diocese in Britain, opened a convent and Gardens. In the ‘season’ to Mr. Anzani’s ‘Bazaar’ charism, and the to the religious communities lished other houses The Presentation Sisters During the 1950s to move the Mass centre there is a brief reference children aged 5-11. it necessary sometimes each of the parishes was entrusted to the care of diocesan clergy. The school catered for provided here in 1954. mixed age classes, were that Bishop who have served there and the work they have done. divided into three Irish, or to the Old Town Hall. was so improved about 50 students, education by, mostly the health of Fr. McGreavy separated by Monsignor Vic- Irish - Catholic By 1852 Priest of Buxton and Brothers of Mercy was founded in 1839 with a traditional, academic, school the Sisters him Missionary opened the teaching Congregation War in 1939, building of a parish primary Hendren appointed Mills. Some considerable Augustinians of the Assumption d’Alzon. They This of the Second World However, with the because of failing parent church of New in 1845 by Fr. Emmanuel of Malines. At the outbreak Sisters. not be needed and the Mission from the family of Errwood Hall Were founded in 1931 and remained tor Scheppers in the Parish of Eastwood, a private school would and the The Grimshawe for Boys in West Bridgford Hall, Smalley, near Heanor realised that closed in the mid-1960s had already been made. a large Grammar School with Corpus Christi they bought Stainsby the south of England. vocations, the school progress Dr. Darwin had adapted Becket was amalgamated boys evacuated from finances and falling assistance, and seating 1975 when the Becket who served to it a school for in Stainsby had given considerable as a chapel with there until notable Assumptionists and transferred was also opened Scarsdale Street to serve Among the more novitiate of the Congregation convent closed in 1966. room in his house in Secondary School. In June 1948 a eighty Catholics in Nottingham were: successively, Coadjutor Hall. The Brothers of Mercy left the diocese in the mid-1950s. for a congregation of sixty. noted that there were Beck (1904-1978) became, Bishop Roskell came to George Andrew Salford and, finally, In 1860 from rheumatism Fr. Brentwood, Bishop of but that many sufferers Fr. Brentwood, Bishop of living on resident in Buxton and the baths, and that Bishop of Carmelites with a group of hermits the benefits of the waters and – at St. Carmelite Order originated a ‘male’ the town to receive a church, a presbytery Archbishop of Liverpool. a long career in teaching The twelfth century. Initially BUXTON on which to build (died 1994) after in the Holy Land in the been had bought land stone of the present Fr. Roger Killeen School – in 1976 founded Mount Carmel a female branch had McGreavy 26 July, the foundation and then at the Becket end of the Middle Ages That same year, on to open the Michael’s College, Hitchin, the founder of the Religious Order, by the both branches of the St. Anne a school. Roskell. He returned after Emmanuel D’Alzon, Avila (1515-1582) reformed Anne was laid by Bishop Manning House (named and disadvan- St. Teresa of church of St. the future Cardinal Emmanuel a shelter for the homeless established. on 16 July 1861 and Nottingham, as forty years charism completed church Assumptionists), support for more than Order. nuns, whose principal House has given this of Discalced Carmelite Not- of the Catholic Faith the notable Catholic taged. Emmanuel A monastery was founded from he return preached on that occasion. 1861, designed by prayer lived in enclosure, in the nineteenth original building of Early English and continues to do so. is a life of contemplative moved to Ashbourne to Buxton in This a simple nave in the in 1926. The nuns almost Scoles, consisted of and London, in Mansfield century was due architect, J. J. erection of a tower ting Hill, of the provided for the subsequent present the Church and to the tourist traffic style. The plans to the building. The Benedictines Order on the life of 1949, and then left the diocese in 1960. Tentirely never been added influence of the Benedictine has been people have From Roman times spire, but these dedicated to the Sacred The in the sixth century town. the two side-chapels society since its foundation of the to the area not only together with the time of Fr. John on the wider roughly twenty Benedictine Cistercians is a reformed branch were attracted sanctuary, were added in Ages, there were Order, dating from 1098, but also to Our Lady of Lourdes enormous. In the Middle other religious houses The Cistercian century. One of the by the beautiful scenery Heart and All of these and originated in the sixth emerge was in Lincolnshire alone. Order which itself Harding, warm springs which Theodore Hoeben (1885-1900). 1897. The sanctuary communities Benedictine an Englishman, St. Stephen by the consecrated on 26 July served of the Cistercians was in Wye with a constant The church was some good quality were suppressed at the time of the Reformation.monks from Ampleforth three founders were Cistercian monasteries near the River century, retaining Benedictine from that soon there Hen- in the late twentieth reredos Since the Reformation, 1949. In 1949, monks and it was not surprising religious houses under temperature of 28 degrees Celsius. reordered including the sanctuary from 1848 until the dissolution of the family late nineteenth century part of Parish of Barton-on-Humber Preparatory At the time of not a single Catholic fittings from the loft were removed as the of St. Benet’s Private England. there was probably sacristy roof and organ took over the running the Bene- reformed. In 1837, when occasionally to say and pulpit. In 1980 the Belmont Abbey school was closed and ry VIII, there were seventy-six Cistercian monasteriesOrder initself the wasBritish Isles. from Leek began to come near Matlock. The century, the Cistercian used in Buxton, the priest James O’Farrell of School at Alderwasley, In the seventeenth reform, but the term resident From August 1845 Fr. a scheme to extend the presbytery. initially as the ‘Trappist’ the visitors from Ireland. that he dictines left in the mid-1970s. This reform was known Mass for during the season. It appears In 1879 the Catholic population of Buxton was one hundred and to say Mass every Sunday for Catholic Leek began room which was reserved twenty-five. In 2013 it was estimated at 5,000. secure the use of a small Blessed Sacrament Fathers Eymard. The aim able to in Peter Julian was was founded in Paris 1856 by St. the Blessed Sacrament purposes and which was spoken of as a ‘chapel’. The Congregation of

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