St Albans Church 022

St. Albans Church was founded in 1773 by Bishop Petre and Father William Fisher. The population of Blackburn continued to grow. A similar increase in the Catholic community meant that St. Albans chapel in Chapel Street needed to be replaced by a larger church on a new site - Larkhill. The building of the new church began in 1824, opening on 21st June 1826. This church was to fulfil the needs of the St. Alban's congregation for the rest of the nineteenth century until a new building in 1901 which remains to this day. This photograph was taken in the 1970's. This photograph shows the New Presbytery of St. Albans Church.