Wisbech: Roman catholicism

A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2002.

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T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells, G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech: Roman catholicism', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R B Pugh( London, 2002), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/p250 [accessed 23 December 2024].

T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells, G M G Woodgate, 'Wisbech: Roman catholicism', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds. Edited by R B Pugh( London, 2002), British History Online, accessed December 23, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/p250.

T D Atkinson, Ethel M Hampson, E T Long, C A F Meekings, Edward Miller, H B Wells, G M G Woodgate. "Wisbech: Roman catholicism". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds. Ed. R B Pugh(London, 2002), , British History Online. Web. 23 December 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol4/p250.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM

From 1840 Roman Catholics worshipped in what had been a carpenter's shop, a priest coming over from Peterborough for monthly services. (fn. 1) A church, in Queen's Road, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Charles Borromeo, was built in 1854. (fn. 2)

Footnotes

  • 1. Gardner, Dir. Cambs. (1851), 608.
  • 2. Gardiner, Hist. Wisb. (1898), p. 272.