Church of All Souls, Bolton

The church was built between 1878 and 1881 and was paid for by Thomas Greenhalgh, an Evangelical mill-owner. Greenhalgh had inherited the money from his brother Nathaniel, who died in 1877 aged 60. It was one of two churches in the area financed from this inheritance, the other being St Saviour's. The total cost of the church, including fittings, stained glass, the organ, and the boundary walls, was £23,000 (equivalent to £}} in ). The local population had grown during the second half of the 19th century, and the church was intended to serve the people working in the nearby mills. It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. The church was planned to seat a congregation of…

The interior is constructed without any pillars, making it a single, undivided space with a span of 52 ft, one of the widest for a parish church in England. To provide the wide interior, the timber roof has a complex structure with rib vaulting, carried on octagonal shafts between the windows. On the sides of the chancel are two-bay arcades. The reredos is in stone and consists of traceried panels, the outer ones inscribed with prayers and other text. The stained glass in the apse depicts scenes from the New Testament; it was designed by the architects and made by Clayton and Bell. The windows are dedicated to the memory of Thomas Greenhalgh's brother, Nathaniel. The stained glass in the…