St Patrick's Church, Bolton

In 1794, the first Roman Catholic church in the Bolton area since the English Reformation was established. It was St Peter and Paul Church on Pilkington Street. It was built from 1798 to 1800 outside the town in a churchyard among fields. In 1853, in the school of St Peter and Paul Church, it was decided to build a church in the centre of the town, which would become St Patrick's Church. St Peter and Paul Church was later replaced by a church built from 1896 to 1897 on the same site, which cost £20,200. In 1990, St Peter and Paul Church was reordered and in 2010 it was closed.

From the meeting in 1853 to establish St Patrick's Church in Bolton, a site was later found on Great Moor Street and an architect, Charles Holt, was commissioned to build the church. On 17 March 1861, the church was opened. Originally, the school was founded around the same time and housed in a three-storey warehouse. In 1884, a purpose-built school was constructed on Dawes Street, close to Great Moor Street.