Places: St Thomas Wallgate

(See Hundreds And Parishes for background of Parish organisation)

St Thomas was a church on Caroline Street Wallgate Wigan opened in 1851. Ancestors that lived in the Wallgate Wigan area used the church for ceremonies.

Descendants of Henry and Ellen Mawdsley used the church.

For more information see GENUKI, Who Built Wigans Churches

St Thomas presumably became a Parish Church after it was consecrated.

The church closed in 1970 when virtually all the houses in Wallgate Wigan were demolished and the church has since been demolished too. The neighbouring St Joseph Catholic Church still exists but is closed and derelict. The St Thomas parish was merged with St James in Poolstock Wigan which is known as St James with St Thomas.

There was St Thomas’s school associated with the church in nearby Caroline Street. Mary Jane Wood was head mistress and organist there at the time of her marriage to Henry and Ellen Mawdsley’s son John.