The Churches of Loughborough - St. Mary's RC Church, Ashby Road
This next church building that I will exhibit is Saint Mary's Catholic Church on Ashby Road. The church building was built in 1833 and extended (and given its present façade) in 1926. It is a Grade II listed building, and was listed on the 5th of November 1984. (Are you thinking what I'm thinking... the fifth of November, Bonfire Night? The night that a bunch of Catholics tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament 379 years previously to the very day? But then again, the date that it was listed could as well have been purely coincidental, as it was on this day in 1984 that several other buildings were listed.)
In one way, the church is unusual as it is perhaps the only Catholic church I can really think of that is named after the Virgin Mary that isn't called something like 'Our Lady of this and that'! (Although churches named 'Our Lady' are most common within the Roman Catholic church, it appears that this naming tradition isn't unique to Catholic churches, as on Google Maps I found an Anglican church in Wanlip, to the north of Leicester, near Birstall, named the 'Church of Our Lady and St. Nicholas', although this name was probably bestowed upon the church before the Reformation, as many medieval Anglican church buildings are, of course, ex-Catholic.) But enough of all that rambling on about church names and the Virgin Mary. Let's see the pictures!
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| 18/09/2020 |
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