St Peter’s New Church, St Peter’s Street, Oldham

St Peter's Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester on Wednesday 16 October 1901. Runcorn stone inside and out. Original church consecrated on 2 June 1768, Last service in old building 12 February 1899.  Rebuilt on same site and re-consecrated 16 October 1901. Demolished 1970.

OLDHAM - The new church of St. Peter's, Oldham, which has been erected on the site of the old church, which was demolished about two years ago, and dates from 1765, was consecrated on Friday by the Bishop of Manchester. The new church is built of Runcorn stone both without and within. Messrs. Wild, Collins, and Wild, of Oldham, were the architects, and Messrs. T. Bebbington and Son, also of Oldham, were the builders. [Building News 25 October 1901 page 573]

For a little over two and a half years the congregation of St Peter’s Oldham have here assembled in the parochial school-room owing to the demolition of the old church and the building of the handsome pile which now stands on the site of the old St Peter’s.  …. The new church will certainly rank as the most handsome structure of the kind in the town, with possibly the exception of St Mary’s more commonly called Oldham Church, and it is a thousand pities that it is hidden away, almost out of sight, in a dingy neighbourhood, and within a stone’s throw of some of the most unsightly and tumbledown property in the town. ….. It is built of flecked Runcorn stone within and without. The total cost, exclusive of the gifts received, is almost £13,000 and the work has been carried out by Messrs T Bebbington and Son, of Oldham, from the designs of Messrs Wild, Collins, and Wild, architects of Oldham

Reference    Manchester Times 5 May 1899 – foundation stone
Reference    Building News 25 October 1901 Page 575
Reference    Manchester Evening News 14 October 1901 page 5