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All Saints,
Bank St,
Bolton
It was founded in 1726. It closed in 1966. is a grade 2 listed building from 25-Apr-1974

The church we see today wa Built originally as the ‘Church of All Saints’ in 1869 to designs by architect George Edmund Street at a cost of £4,000. Street an Essex man was . Stylistically, a leading practitioner of the Victorian Gothic Revival.
Though mainly an ecclesiastical architect, he is perhaps best known as the designer of the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand in London.

the church now known as the Ukrainian Catholic Church, on All Saints' Street is a grade II listed building, but it is now a shell of what it used to be.
The gothic style building is crumbling and listed as an "at risk" heritage site and Historic England has labelled its condition "poor" with slow decay and no solution yet agreed.
it is Located on an elevated site, this could be the reason why there has been some movement to both the western porch and the north eastern vestry.

The subsidence appears to be live, with some open masonry joints, probably due to inadequate foundations when the extensions were added shortly after the initial construction.

The church seated 630 people and replaced an earlier place of worship which dated back to 1726. It closed in 1966 and was converted into a Ukrainian Catholic church which then closed itself in 2021.