The Church of St Edmund, Rochdale in the County of -- Lancashire --

	Drawing of the Church of St Edmund, Rochdale Drawing from Rochdale Past and Present and © William Robertson

	The Church of St Edmund, Rochdale Photograph supplied by and © of Mike Berrell

Sunday Services began at Town Mill Brow School 12 January 1868.

The church was founded by Albert Hudson Royds a wealthy Victorian Industrialist and Freemason at a cost of £20,000 and opened 7th May 1873.

It sits in a diamond shape churchyard at the highest point in the town, the church is cruciform in shape of Gothic architecture using mainly Pierrepoint stone.