An Illustrated History of Old Sutton in St.Helens
Part 7 (of 41) - The History of Religion in Sutton, St.Helens
c) St.Anne's Church, Monastery & Convent | d) Sutton Chapels
a) Introduction
Although Christianity arrived quite early in South Lancashire, the ideal of a church in every township was not realised in Sutton until the 1840s. For hundreds of years, the Sutton township had been part of the large parish of Prescot which stretched as far north as Rainford, with Henry V1 having transferred Prescot parish's living to the authority of King’s College Cambridge in 1446. St.Mary's church in Prescot was built around 1100 and although rebuilt in 1610, the original vestry and font, as well as sections of the chancel walls, have survived.With no place of worship in Sutton, the township's denizens either had to journey to St.Mary's or walk or ride through miry lanes to St.Helen's church in Hardshaw. From 1388, the fit and able Suttoners could choose to attend Farnworth church near Widnes, which was built by Sir John Bold, and from the 1830s worshippers could also commute to Parr to attend services at the original church of St.Peter's.
For those passing through Sutton, roadside crosses were strategically placed on Marshalls Cross Road and Peasley Cross Road, so that travellers on those highways could stop and pray for a safe journey. This important north-south route probably dates back even earlier than Roman times.
The more well-to-do Sutton residents might worship at home or at their friends' or neighbours' houses with services ministered by travelling preachers. However, large numbers of the township's working class were either unable or unwilling to attend church. It was said by Methodist preachers in 1800 that many of Sutton's colliers had never heard the word of God until they addressed the miners at open air meetings. Sometimes ministers would preach to labourers at their own works and during the nineteenth century, the Congregational Church regularly held bible classes in a room at the Sutton Copper works.
As described in the Lords and Masters page, worshipping the wrong denomination at the wrong time could get you into terrible trouble! Sutton's Holland family paid a considerable price, with Protestant Roger Holland burnt at the stake in 1558 and Roman Catholic Thomas Holland hung and quartered in 1642.
As the Sutton population expanded during the nineteenth century, churches within the township were seen as necessities. The first purpose-built place of worship was built in Lancots Lane in 1845 by the Wesleyan Methodists. However, the Sutton Parish Church of St.Nicholas was hot on its heels and was built in New Street on a much bigger scale.
b) Sutton Parish Churches - C of E
To commemorate the fourth centenary of the foundation of King’s College in Cambridge, their provost and scholars elected to build a church at Sutton and endow it as a separate vicarage. A site in New Street, near the old workhouse, was chosen as its location, with the ground donated by Sir Henry Bold Houghton. The church was dedicated to St.Nicholas, a patron saint of King’s College Cambridge and it was built from pink sandstone. The Hughes family of Sherdley Hall contributed to the funding of Sutton Church, as it was generally known, with its consecration on June 4th, 1849 by the Bishop of Chester, Rev. John Graham.
St.Nicholas Church in New Street, Sutton photographed c.1910 on a picture postcard
On July 14th and 16th, 1865, a new organ was unveiled at the church which was made by Henry Willis of London and donated by Lord of the Manor, William Roby Pilkington. Rev. Vallancey invited Cathedral organist George Cooper of St.James Palace's Chapel Royal in London to perform in three choral services that were held over the two days. Four prayer-readers and preachers were also brought in for the celebratory occasion.
An east window was added to the church in 1879, which was thought to have been designed by expert stained glass window designer Henry Holiday.
Vallancey's successor was Maximilian Frederick Breffit Binney who was Vicar of Sutton for eleven years from 1889. During his tenure, Rev. Binney supervised the construction of All Saints Church in Ellamsbridge Road. The major benefactors who funded the enterprise included Lord of the Manor William Roby Pilkington who provided the site and £1000 and Sutton Glass Works, managed by William Blinkhorn, who gave a total of £800. Blinkhorn's daughter Emily, incidentally, married Rev. Binney in 1898. All Saints was built from red sandstone and like St. Nicholas, was designed by the renowned Lancaster architects Paley and Austin.
The Manchester Times of August 7th, 1891 reported that William Pilkington's daughter had laid the foundation stone for the church some three days earlier. They said the total cost would be £6,800 and the new church near St.Helens Junction station would accommodate 600 worshippers.
A drawing of All Saints Church by architects Paley & Austin which was published in 'The Building News' 10/7/1891
All Saints was consecrated by Bishop John Ryle (1816-1900), who was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool, on October 14th, 1893. This was now the second Church of England place of worship in Sutton parish and for many years a solitary vicar held services at both churches, supported by curates. Although often referred to as 'St.Nick's' today, for much of the last century St.Nicholas was known as 'Top Church', to differentiate it from All Saints within the more residential Sutton Village.
Improvements were made to the New Street church whenever funds allowed. A Liverpool Mercury article from January 26th, 1897 stated that Parr contractor Peter Tickle had commenced work on a new tower for St.Nicholas, which was set to cost between £700 and £800. The funds had been provided by Miss Hughes of Sherdley Hall who had donated £1000 as a memorial to her mother Ellinor who'd died two years earlier, with the balance going towards a "reseating of the body of the church".
By the turn of the new century, the influence and authority of vicars in their communities was starting to diminish. The days when the likes of Rev. Henry E. F. Vallancey could write stern letters to the wealthy demanding money for his National Schools project, as he did in 1856 to landowner Ellen Hughes, were becoming numbered.
On June 4th a vestry meeting was attended by an astonishing 500 Sutton parishioners and The Times reported that "the proceedings were marked at times with considerable feeling and liveliness". All but Crane and two parishioners voted for the cross and ornaments to be removed, a verdict which the Bishop of Liverpool felt should be honoured.
Two pictures of Rev. Colegrove - the first in 1911 has the vicar to the right of the drum with the Church Lads
Brigade - in the second c.1935, contributed by Jim Lamb, parishioners are preparing for an outing
Although the vicar somewhat grudgingly complied, relations with his flock were probably never the same and in 1910 he swapped benifices with William Edward Colegrove (1859 -1940) of Alvanley, Cheshire and died soon afterwards. Rev. Colegrove was yet another controversial vicar in Sutton parish who, it was alleged, undertook ritualistic services. He was Vicar of Sutton for 29 years but fell out with the Parochial Church Council that he himself chaired and he refused to attend meetings or cooperate with council members. Frank Bamber in his memoir 'Clog Claggers in Old Sutton' remembered him as being rather cold:
The vicar was known as “Owd Colegrove”. To my mind, he lacked the common touch. We never saw him smile. He was remote from us and there was a period where the parish split through his arrogance....The vicar himself, with his red owl like face always seemed to be looking up over our heads whenever he passed us by. 
On Sunday, March 8th the band of 'Ironsides' sang a succession of hymns in an attempt to prevent Rev. Colegrove from completing his Eucharist. So Bishop David took the unprecedented step of ordering that the church be closed on the following Sunday from 9am until 6pm. However, this cooling off period while the Bishop talked to both sides proved to be unsuccessful. On March 29th, when Dr. David himself took part in the Choral Eucharist, a band of fifty 'Ironsides' wearing regalia and carrying a banner, walked out of the Ellamsbridge Road church to hold their own service outside.
Rev. W. E. Colegrove served Sutton parish for 29 years and has an austere grave at St.Nicholas
Dr. David praised Rev. Colegrove's sterling work in his parish but he'd clearly had enough of his behaviour and tactfully called for the long-standing and ageing vicar to go:
Mr. Colegrove's personal work in Sutton has been remarkable during an incumbency of 26 years, but the fruits of this long service there will suffer unless they can soon pass into younger hands...I have been advising him in his own interests and in those of the parish to contemplate resignation. 
Reg was another Sutton vicar to make it into The Times after he'd persuaded a soap manufacturer to make 'Sutton Parish Hall' branded soap bars. Rev. Smith then recruited a salesforce of female church workers to sell his soap door to door in Sutton, with the proceeds from the sales going towards the cost of materials for the new hall.
Sutton's first vicar, Henry Vallancey, probably turned in his modest grave at the front of St.Nicholas! When he needed funds, Vallancey sent out letters to his wealthy parishioners and as local representative of the all-powerful church, they didn't dare refuse him.
However, in the era of the swinging sixties and diminishing church attendances, vicars had to develop lateral thinking when fundraising. However, Rev. Smith's soap initiative, which bypassed local traders, went down badly with some of them. Charles Lee who owned a Sutton hardware shop was not impressed:
The vicar's attitude seems to be one of not minding whose feet he treads on. He asks shopkeepers to help his campaign and then starts taking our customers away...where's it going to end? 
(The Times 7th January, 1963)
Rev. J. R. 'Reg' Smith (left) in March 1963 literally doing the spadework for the St.Nicholas Parish Hall!
(contributed by James Lamb)
A notable curate at Sutton during this time was Jonathan Bailey (1940 - 2008) who served the parish for three years from 1965 and in 1995 became the Bishop of Derby. He was also a very keen bee-keeper, who at one time owned 60,000 bees! The successor to Rev. Smith was Paul Collingwood Nelson Conder who was Vicar of Sutton from 1967 until 1975. Rev. Conder was the last of the eight vicars of Sutton as his successors Michael Soulsby and J. L. Higham held the position of Rector and since 1990, Sutton Parish has had Team Vicars.
The role of vicar has changed much since Vallancey's days when the parish had just one church. In the Liverpool Mercury of October 26th, 1888 there was an advertisement for a two day auction of the late vicar's possessions, which included a one-horse brougham and harness. It would have been a common sight to see Henry Vallancey ambling round Sutton in his horse and carriage on his way to inspect his schools or take tea with parishioners. These days with a trio of churches, including St.Michael & All Angels in Gartons Lane, there is much more organisation required to preach the gospel and provide pastoral care for the Sutton community and so a team ethos thrives.
Dedicated page on Reverend Henry Vallancey; St.Nicholas Church Photo-Album
c) St.Annes Church, Monastery and Convent
Engraving entitled 'St.Anne's Retreat Sutton' of the original 19th century church and monastery
Smith travelled to Aston Hall, near Stone in Staffordshire, to meet Brother Dominic Barberi (1792-1849 pictured right) at the first Passionist Monastery in England. The Italian priest had opened it in February 1842 and Smith made him the offer of building a second Passionist retreat in Sutton township along with a church. Brother Dominic accepted but died of a heart attack at Reading on August 27th, 1849. He'd intended to have laid the foundation stone for the new church and monastery, but as the ceremony took place in Sutton, his funeral proceeded at Stone.
On October 26th, 1853, St.Anne's RC church and St.Anne's Retreat, as the monastery was formally known, were both consecrated by Bishop Alexander Goss. This was four years after the sudden death of the Italian priest who'd inspired a philanthropic Sutton railway man to build places of worship for his Roman Catholic neighbours. In 1949 in an article marking the centenary of Fr. Barberi's death, The Times of 22/8/1949 referred to him as:
...a remarkable figure in the nineteenth-century revival of Roman Catholicism in England 
The original St.Anne's church with spire and tower which existed between 1851 and 1934
As described in the education page, the Passionist clergy saw the education of local children as a priority and from 1853 began using a large schoolroom attached to the monastery. With a Roman Catholic church and school in Sutton, devotees were increasingly attracted to the district and by 1861 the number of parishioners exceeded two thousand. A remarkable increase on the estimated forty Catholics just two, or so, decades earlier. Initially the challenge was in building the places of worship and of education. However, it soon became one of meeting the spiritual and educative needs of an expanding community in the Sutton district, while at the same time fighting a war against subsidence.
Father Bernadine Carosi as Rector of St.Annes met the challenge head on. He was appointed in October 1852, succeeding Father Honorius Mazzini, the first holder of the post whose brief tenure had begun in August 1851. Fr. Carosi served as Rector for many years and held two terms of office. Although he retired in 1863, his successor Fr. Ignatius Spencer suddenly died during the following year and so Fr. Carosi was reappointed. During his tenures as Rector, the monastery was extended (1860) and a new church and school was opened at St.Joseph's Lecture Hall in Peasley Cross (1862).
Inside the original St.Annes Roman Catholic church - contributed by Sutton Historic Society (undated c.1915)
The St.Helens Weekly News of May 25th, 1861 reported on a "tea party and soiree" held in the St.Anne's schoolroom. Two hundred clergy and parishioners heard a stirring tribute from Rev. Albin, who declared that "the parish is now in a great measure free from sickness, but there are many of us who remember when the case was otherwise". Father Bernadine was praised for his time spent at the bedside of poorly parishioners in Sutton. Or as Rev. Albin put it, at "the sick bed of suffering humanity" .
Left: Picture postcard of the Sutton monastery grounds c.1915 - contributed by Sutton Historic Society
Right: Entrance to the grounds located to the left of the front of the church - contributed by Ian Campbell
In June 1888 a new Altar of the Sacred Heart was donated by locomotive manufacturer William Borrows of Providence Foundry as a memorial to his wife. It was about this time that Father Basil, the adopted son of John Smith, St.Anne's other great benefactor, became the Rector of the church. He initiated extensive alterations which led to a period of closure until the church was reopened in November 1889.
The monastery was extended in 1910, although part of the original building had to be knocked down. The St.Helens Newspaper of January 3rd, 1911, announced that the "magnificent monastery of St.Anne Sutton" would be formally reopened and blessed by Bishop Whiteside of Liverpool on January 15th. "The ceremony will be a solemn and impressive one", commented the paper. It was also made into an open day for visitors and hundreds of Suttoners and others took advantage of this special opportunity to inspect this normally closed monastic community.
The monastery extension was expensive and in May 1911 to help pay off the debt, a Diamond Jubilee Bazaar was held at St.Helens Town Hall which raised the remarkable sum of £2,040. 1911 was also the year that Fr. Dominic Barberi was declared venerable and in 1923 pilgrimages to his remains at St.Annes commenced. The Knights of St.Columbia began their own pilgrimages during the following year and in 1925 'Dominic's Sunday' was established as a regular annual event in the church's calendar. In 1933, 8000 people processed to the Italian priest's tomb and in some years papal telegrams were received at Monastery Lane supporting the pilgrims. .
A picture postcard of the extended monastery in Sutton, St.Helens c.1915 - Contributed by Sutton Historic Society
During the last few years, fractures in the wall have become so extensive, due to mining subsidence, that the arches inside the church have had to be supported by props as a safety measure. Already preparations for the demolition of the spire and tower have been made. The tower is more than one hundred feet high, and is a landmark for miles around. The church will be extended for a distance of twelve feet at the west end. The history of the church has been a story of warfare against the effects of mining subsidence. A fault, running diagonally across the west end, has caused the back of the church to be broken. Almost a year ago, the Rev. Fr. Leo, rector of the Monastery, and the Sutton Heath and Lea Green Colliery Company, decided upon the advice of the architect, Mr. W. Ellis, to reconstruct the west end of the church. No ugly patches of new masonry will disfigure the general beauty of the walls of the church, for the stone obtained from the tower and spire will be used in the extension of the church. It is hoped that the work will be completed by October. The church entrance will, on completion, be an attractive addition to the church. Through the oak doors, the worshipper will walk along to the interior of the church by a passage divided from the side chapels by handsome oak screens. The extension will contain a baptistry at the side of the entrance. Overhead a gallery will be constructed with three divisions, the centre being provided for members of the choir. One of the remaining two divisions will serve as a music conservatory, and the organ will occupy the other division…It is calculated that this extension, together with the new part of the church now occupied by the spire, will provide accommodation for 120 people. 
The 'second' St.Anne's church which was demolished through subsidence about 1971 - contributed by Ian Campbell
While the work was undertaken, Sunday services took place within a screened-off area of the church that was unaffected by the alterations, with some masses said in the girls school. Some of the larger stone obtained from the tower and spire was used in the construction of windows, pillars and courses for the new front of the church. From the remaining stones, a Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes was built between the church and a clubroom. The reconstructed church was finished in January, 1935 and it was consecrated on March 3rd by Archbishop Downey of Liverpool.
The second Sutton convent, the original was in Fenney's Lane - Contributed by Sutton Historic Society
In 1939 a new social centre was created from the small Primitive Methodist meeting house in Robins Lane that was known as the Tin Chapel. A dance floor was installed which was considered the finest in the district. The war against subsidence continued and in 1948 the infants school was closed along with part of the church. It was reported that its arches were severed by yawning chasm-like cracks and the floor had sunk to a sharp angle.
Ultimately it was realised that a new church had to be built and it was opened and blessed by George Beck, Archbishop of Liverpool, in November 1973 at a cost of £150,000. Although some stained-glass windows were transferred to the new church, others went to Sweden for a new Passionist church in Jönköping. The BBC recognised the efforts of the Sutton Catholic community and the heritage of their church and monastery when it televised its 11 o'clock Mass on February 29th, 1976.
Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes built out of stone from the church's tower and steeple - contributed by Ian Campbell
The church is now known as St.Anne and the Blessed Dominic and an attached shrine is dedicated to Dominic Barberi, Father Ignatius Spencer (1799-1864) and Elizabeth Prout (1820-1864). Father Ignatius was born George Spencer and was related to both Winston Spencer Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales but turned his back on his privileged upbringing to become a monk. He met Blessed Dominic in Italy in 1830 and persuaded him to come to England. Fr. Spencer took the first mass in the newly-consecrated St.Annes and was briefly its Rector.
Elizabeth Prout was foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion and helped children who worked in the Manchester mills. She spent nine years in Sutton, where she served as headmistress of the church school, dying at the old convent in Fenney's Lane in 1864. Dominic Barberi was beatified by Pope Paul VI on 27th October, 1963 and currently Fr. Ignatius Spencer's and Elizabeth Prout's causes for sainthood are being considered by the Vatican. It's quite conceivable that Sutton could have a shrine devoted to three Saints at some point in the future as Frank Free wrote in his book Our Heritage in Sutton and Bold in 1979:
So here in a lovely shrine, especially built for the purpose, are the mortal remains of the son of an Italian farmer, the son of a noble English family and the daughter of a good Protestant family. Their lives may have ended, but their inspiration lives on in those around them and in others farther afield who make pilgrimages to this sacred shrine to gather the faith, courage and hope that sustained these faithful three who now rest with their Maker. 
Also mention must be made of St.Joseph's RC Church in Sutton Road, Peasley Cross which dates back to 1870. It was only a small building then but was a larger structure eight years later. One of the early priests, Fr. Melia, was a friend of Captain Michael Hughes and campaigned with him as Regimental Chaplain in the Boer War. Father Barry and Father Coffey were popular priests at St.Joseph's, the latter having previously been the Chaplain to the Queen of Portugal.
Also See: Sutton Trivia & True Facts articles: The Sutton Monastery Opera Star; A 'Breeze' At Sutton Parish Church; Telegrams To Sutton From The Pope; Blog Posts: Three Sutton Saints Set For Saint Helens; It's 'Heaven' at the Chapel in Sutton Oak!; It's Titanic Month at the Welsh Chapel;
Video on the Life of Elizabeth Prout (by Mary Ann Strain) :
d) Sutton Chapels including Methodist & Welsh Chapels
As stated in the introduction, St.Nicholas in New Street was not the first purpose-built church in Sutton. In 1845, four years before the Sutton Parish Church was consecrated, the Wesleyan Methodists built a chapel on the corner of Lancots Lane and Sutton Road. It was built on land given by industrialist William Blinkhorn using cobbles made out of copper slag that were donated by Newton Keates & Co. In 1871 the Wesleyans moved to larger premises in Sutton Road that cost them £2,000 to construct, although initially they retained their original church as a Sunday School. On September 7th, 1893 the older chapel was sold to the Welsh community who used it as a non-denominational, non-conformist place of worship.
The Sutton Oak Welsh Chapel in Lancots Lane - Contributed by Sutton Historic Society
There had been a considerable influx of Welsh copper workers into Sutton during the nineteenth century and their first church services had taken place in a cottage in 1834. Later the Welsh occupied a storeroom at Crone and Taylor's fertiliser and manures factory in Lancots Lane. The congregation had to climb through a hole in the surrounding wall to gain access to the storeroom and so it was quickly dubbed the "Hole in the Wall Church". Although the "slag chapel" across the road had proved too small for the Methodists, it was ideal for the Welsh and it still exists to this day, managed by the Sutton Oak Welsh Chapel Preservation Society.
There used to be another Welsh Chapel located at the bottom of Peckers Hill Road. The building still exists but is now seemingly a storeroom with the Welsh Presbyterian Church having sold the property in 1989. Its origins date back to 1893 when a meeting of Welshmen was held in the Junction Lane house of David Jones. They elected to rent a room over a shoe shop in Peckers Hill Road and their first service was held in October of that year, conducted by Rev. Ellis Lloyd. A minister of the Welsh Presbyterian Chapel in Hardshaw Street, St.Helens took services on Sunday afternoons and in 1894, sixteen of their members transferred to Sutton. Soon the rented room became overcrowded and so it was decided to build a chapel of their own, which was eventually opened in January 1897 with a schoolroom added in 1913. Rev. J. Peron Jones was the minister at both the Peckers Hill Road and Hardshaw Street chapels for over forty years, with all of their services conducted in the Welsh language.
A Welsh Baptist chapel also existed in Robins Lane and the Congregational Church built one in Peasley Cross in 1864. This adopted a Gothic style of architecture with a nave and aisle plus porch and tower with a spire in the middle. It was demolished about 1975 and a lighter building replaced it.
The Independent Methodist Church in Herbert Street, Sutton which still exist as Sutton Village Church
Up until 1933 there was a little Primitive Methodist church on Robins Lane that backed onto an entry between Edgeworth Street and Ellen Street. It was nicknamed the 'Tin Chapel' as its roof and outside walls were encased in corrugated sheets. There was no dedicated minister but members of a Methodist circuit preached in the chapel supported by local lay preachers. After it closed, the building became a social centre for St.Annes RC church but has long been demolished. Worshippers transferred to the Methodist chapel in Sutton Road which Frank Bamber in his 'Clog Clatters in Old Sutton' described as a large building:
...where we used to socialize on an evening after leaving school. Here we played all sorts of games, blind man’s buff, guessing games and kiss in ring. We greatly enjoyed ourselves here. 
The Zion Independent Methodist Church at 107 Herbert Street, now known as Sutton Village Church, was founded in November 1884 with prayer meetings initially held in a local house. In 1891 a Mrs. Thompson donated some land and a chapel was constructed. There was an extension to the building in 1910 and Sunday School rooms and a kitchen were incorporated into a two-storey extension in 1962, with a car park added adjacent to the building in 1980. The Independent Methodists were renowned for the training of volunteer ministers and for the Christian Endeavour movement which began when the chapel was first built. Preachers Billy Hardy, John Kitts and Billy (Chippy) Southern broke away from the Herbert Street church to found their own Emmanuel chapel in Helena Road, now known as the Church of the Nazarene.
Kitts and Southern were originally hard-drinking miners who decided to change their ways and began preaching against the evils of drink. Frank Bamber wrote in 'Clog Clatters' that when the new Wheatsheaf Hotel in Mill Lane, Sutton Leach was opened in 1938, the pair tried unsuccessfully to stop a large crowd from entering the pub. The pair castigated the drinkers that they were entering the "House of the Devil".
Billy Hardy was renowned for his 'fire and brimstone' preaching in Herbert Street, then Helena Road, and made several visits to the United States, where he was said to have followings of thousands.
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