Christ Church, Fulwood in the County of -- Lancashire --

Christ Church, Fulwood
in the Town of Preston

	Christ Church, Fulwood Photograph supplied by and © of Brian Young

	The Church Sign at Christ Church, Fulwood Photograph supplied by and © of Brian Young

Fulwood was originally part of the largest parish in the county, St Mary’s Lancaster. Around 1860 ‘The Forest of Fulwood’ became a desirable residence for the wealthy Preston residents and in early 1862 The Fulwood Church Committee started to raise funds, its target of £3700 was reached in 1864 and the foundation stone laid on 12th May. Christ Church was dedicated on 3 August 1865 by the Bishop of Manchester.

Since then, Fulwood continued to grow rapidly. In 1886, the new parish union workhouse was the first major building after Christ Church to be completed, and still stands to this day more recently becoming the Civic Hostel. Many Baptisms at Christ Church in the late 1890s were children whose parent(s) were inmates of Fulwood Workhouse.

The rapid growth led, in 1883, to the Eastern part of Fulwood becoming the new parish of Ribbleton and, in 1916, it was felt necessary to increase the ecclesiastical presence in Fulwood by creating the Church of Saint Cuthbert.

While Christ Church was being built, a barn of the old Brunswick farm was temporarily used as a mission. The area of the barn was rebuilt as a school in 1866 merging with an existing school on Black Bull Lane. The new school, the Fulwood and Cadeley School (Original Spelling), moved back to Black Bull Lane in 1937 as the Cadley County Primary School.