Broad Street (O.S. GR SP0586 approx.)
CLOSED 1969
DEMOLISHED soon afterwards.
In 1786 Frs. J. Nutt and J. Hawley, the priests of the mission, resolved on erecting a larger chapel, and shortly afterwards a fine structure dedicated to St. Peter was opened; Fr. Joseph Berington preached on the occasion to a crowded congregation. In 1802 the chapel was enlarged, many protestants contributing to the fund. Fr. Nutt died in 1799. His successors were Messrs. Pilkington, Kimble, Summer, Hawley, and Edgeworth. In 1824 the Franciscans gave up the mission to the V.A. of the Midlands, when the Rev. J. McDonnell was appointed to the chapel. He built the presbytery, added side galleries to the chapel, and opened a Catholic burial ground. These undertakings loaded him with debt, from which he was generously relieved by the Earl of Shrewsbury. The enlarged chapel held about six hundred persons. In 1883 the Society of. the Sacred Heart was established in the church. The present handsome Gothic church of St. Peter in Broad Street was opened by Bishop Ullathorne in 1871.
KELLY 1907