The Roman Catholic Church of St Mary, Ashton-under-Lyne in the County of -- Lancashire --

St Mary’s Chapel was opened in a converted house in 1856. During the anti-Catholic ‘Murphy Riots’ in 1868 this chapel and the neighbouring Church of St Ann were wrecked, along with over a hundred houses inhabited by Irish Catholics.

A new Church of St Mary was built on West Street in 1870. In 2003 the Parish amalgamated with St Ann’s and St Mary’s church was demolished.

	The War Memorial from St Mary, now displayed at St Ann Photograph supplied by and © of Leslie Beck 2014

	St Mary's School Photograph supplied by and © of Mike Berrell