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Shore Chapel and grounds. The chapel is now (2019) in a state of dereliction.

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On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s and a part is now a private house but the rest is derelict and the chapel roofless.

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On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s but services continued in a room in the Sunday SChool until the final closure in October 1985. One part is now…

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A church was founded here in 1848 and the chapel seen here closed in 1965 and is now a private house.

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Looking down the Upper Calder Valley. Cross Stone Church on the hillside with canal wharf in the centre.

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Looking down the Calder Valley with the Rochdale Canal in the foreground. On the far hillside stands Cross Stone Church.

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NAME: SANDHOLME MILL

LOCATION: Commercial Street, Todmorden

REF: CD37

GRID REF: 944 242

CLASSIFICATION: B and C

CONDITION: Fully used

APPROX DATE OF SITE AND BUILDINGS: From early 19C

DESCRIPTION/HISTORY: The last of this group of…

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The Great Wall of Todmorden viewed from Shoebroad. Fielden Square is bottom right and Waterside Mill to the left.

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The clearing of the site on which the new Todmorden Medical Centre was built with the Methodist Chapel on the right of the picture. The Medical Centre was demolished in the 2000s.

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Previously based at Millwood the congregation moved to Roomfield in 1877 nearer to Todmorden Centre. The Chapel was demolished in 1953 due to dry rot and similarly the schoolroom, which had temporarily been used for services, followed the same fate…

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Todmorden’s first Baptist Meeting House was built on this site about 1703 but it closed eighty years later although there was short revival at the end of the century but then in 1804 the congregation moved down the hill to their new Rehoboth Chapel…

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View over the town from the west. The remains of Fielden’s Waterside Mill, an old spinning mill built in 1800, can be seen on the right after a disastrous fire in 1901. The spire of the Unitarian Church, built by the Fieldens, is in the centre. The…

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The plaque reads:
TO THE MEMORY OF
SAMUEL, JOHN AND
JOSHUA FIELDEN
Constant Benefactors of
THE UNITARIAN
CHURCH AND SCHOOL
This Stone was laid by
S. ALFRED STEINTHAL
June 17th 1899

(Rev. Samuel Alfred Steinthal was a prominent…

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The chapel was founded in 1816 by the Methodist New Connextion. The Congregational Church purchased the chapel along with the Manse and school in 1841 for the sum of £1,250. The Rev. Robert Stevens was the first Minister.

By 1878, the building had…

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Only the chapel's gate and railings can be seen here. A chapel was first opened her by the New Connexion Methodists in 1816 but was sold to the Baptists in 1841. By 1878 they had outgrown it and a new Chapel was built on the site. It closed and was…

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St Peter's was devastated by fire in May 1948, but this service in the ruins of the church demonstrated faith in the future. The church was rebuilt and rededicated on 10th March 1956. The church had originally been built in 1845 when Walsden became a…

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Taken prior to the re-ordering of the church which took place in the early 1990s.
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