leschip Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 St. Mary's is looking great after the building work. The roof is almost finished. Photographs by a Prescot Church Congregant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covalence Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Lovely! Is it RC or C/E? The plaques in the walls at first made me thing C/E, but then the last picture looks like a station of the cross, so RC.. Inquiring minds wish to know.. :--} C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 Church of England. It's the Church in which I was Confirmed by Stuart Liverpool, who then went on to become Archbishop of York. Although the Churchyard is multi denominational. The RC Church is about 50mtrs away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrb Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 What is the name of the R.C. church. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 Our Lady and St. Joseph's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Sorry being very picky - its Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph A Grade II listed building designed by Hansom - who also designed the Hansom cab More information at http://www.prescot.org/index.php?id=10&root=6&&sid=2243 St Mary's - Prescot Parish Church http://www.prescot.org/index.php?id=10&root=6&&sid=2253 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted August 12, 2014 Author Share Posted August 12, 2014 Sorry being very picky - its Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Thanks for the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffB Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 I always new it as the RC Church - didn't know its name until I looked at the listed buildings :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covalence Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Thanks, I do recall looking it up a bit ago, now, I'd forgotten. I like the angled rib beams and the play of light on the walls..nice perspectives. Best--C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RATTY Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I was confirmed at Our Ladys at the age of 19 I went to Whiston Central Modern though. C of E, St Marys was their parish church so we had the school founders day mass there every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 I went to Whiston Central Modern though. C of E, St Marys was their parish church so we had the school founders day mass there every year. Do you mean Whiston Secondary Modern? If so, I don't recall a Founder's Day. There was a Governor's Assembly, but that was held in the hall. When I was there the Boys' and Girls' where seperate schools, with 2 sets of Governors. I refer this to a wiser head Mr. S. ? PGS (B&G) may have had a Founder's Day Service. Over to JVY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covalence Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 So, shall I guess that "PGS (B&G) = Prescott Grammar School (Boys and Girls)? Just translating.. :--} C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvy20 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 True - Founders Day service at St Mary's Prescot - didn't have a Mass though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RATTY Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Shows you how much I was listening when I was there (later than you, we were allowed to see the boys) it was Whiston Central, then Whiston Secondary, then Rainhill High, then a bloody big hole in the ground when they moved it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeoffB Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 PGS (boys only in my time there) also held its Founders Day service at St Mary's On the day at around 10 - 500 boys and their teachers would leave the school in procession to the Parish Church - with police controlling the traffic There was always an invited big wig guest (though I can't remember any of them) - who as part of the service would give a speech/sermon/talk As tradition had it the guest would always ask the headmaster to grant the boys a half day holiday - the highlight for most of us. So after the service we got the rest of the day off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted August 14, 2014 Author Share Posted August 14, 2014 (later than you Too right, Ratty, much, much later. When I first went to school it was in Portico Lane Infants. The building was annexed to the Girls' School in 1955. So, I can say that I am one of the few who finished school in the same complex in which they started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gervassutti Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Lady Immaculate The use of the word 'Immaculate' in 1856, when naming the church, was nicely timed, as the Roman Catholic Church had dithered for hundreds of years over the concept of 'The Immaculate Conception' before it was dogmatically defined in 1854. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gervassutti Posted September 15, 2014 Share Posted September 15, 2014 Our Lady and St. Joseph's Sorry being very picky - its Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph I'm unsure of the original name of the R.C. Church. When I used to attend there as a child, my parents and the parish priests always referred to the church as 'Our Lady & St. Joseph's; Registrar Superintendents in the 19th century named the church as 'Church of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph' when registering marriages; and Slater's Directory, for the first time, mentioned the church as being dedicated to 'Our Lady Immaculate and St.Joseph' in 1898. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen nulty Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I found this entry in the Liverpool Daily Post, 22nd October 1857 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gervassutti Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I wonder if the Prescot Registrars were aware of the distinction between 'The Virgin Birth' and 'The Immaculate Conception' when they referred to the R.C.church as 'Church of The Blessed Virgin and St.Joseph' on marriage documents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen nulty Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Not so sure I'm aware of it :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gervassutti Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 The Virgin Birth is as it suggests; The Immaculate Conception is being born without the stain of Original Sin. The Redemption was to cleanse us all of original sin and many in the RC church believed for centuries that there should be no exceptions, including Mary, until the Immaculate Conception was dogmatised eventually 08.12.1854. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen nulty Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 By gum, it's like being back at St Luke's, circa 1964 I'd forgotten that level of detail. I was never any good at Catechism, either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leschip Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Bah ghum, we have it a lot easier in the Church of England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covalence Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 The person involved is different, too: The Virgin Birth applies to Jesus, born of the Virgin Mary. The Immaculate Conception applies to Mary, conceived without since (colloquially, although not Scripturally, attributed to her parents Sts Joachim and Anne). One evening when we were studying the 2nd chapter of Luke's gospel a waggish friend with a sarcastic sense of humor and a good memory taught our Bible study class this Catholic HS gem (from the days before birth control was available) : "Holy Mary, we believe, Without Sin Thou didst conceive. Teach us then, thus believing, How to sin without conceiving." Funny what the mind dredges up..hadn't thought of that one in years.. C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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