The first Catholic Church in Lydiate was built in 1480 and dedicated to St. Katherine the patron saint of Lawrence Ireland’s wife Katherine. It is known locally as the ‘Abbey.’ After the destruction of St. Katherine’s Abbey in the late 1500’s the Jesuit Order from 1681 openly served the Catholic population from Lydiate Hall and its chapel. This continued until 1850 when the current church of Our Lady’s was built and opened in 1854. Until then, Lydiate had been without a Catholic Church since the loss of St. Katherine’s.
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