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The parish of St Michael's was united with that of All Saints in 1958. [8] The two bells in the bellcote were stolen in 1969. [5] St Michael's church was declared redundant in 1973 and vested in the Redundant Churches Fund (the forerunners of the Churches Conservation Trust) in 1975. The thatched roof was restored by the Trust in 2000.
Long Branch is a beachside city in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 31,667, [9] [10] an increase of 948 (+3.1%) from the 2010 census count of 30,719, [19] [20] which in turn reflected a decline of 621 (−2.0%) from the 31,340 counted in the 2000 census. [21]
St. Michael's Church Rectory. St. Michael's Church (c. 1875), a cruciform basilica with a tower in Gothic Revival and Romanesque styles. It has a "five bay, aisled nave, and a massive altar set in a great niche whose back wall is cut through with a colonnade screen. The church is entered through a vestibule set in the base in a single central ...
A plan is shaping up to restore the Long Branch Record building, one of several older edifices that still dot the city's historic main thoroughfare. Century-old Long Branch Record building could ...
The Church of the Presidents was consecrated in 1879 as St. James Protestant Episcopal Chapel, a branch of St. James Episcopal Church, located elsewhere in Long Branch, New Jersey. The church picked up its nickname following the visits of so many chief executives.
Longstanton occupies 2,775 acres (1,123 ha). Longstanton was created in 1953 from the two parishes of Long Stanton All Saints and Long Stanton St Michael. While the village is called Longstanton, the alternative form Long Stanton is still in use, for example when referring to the separate pre-1953 parishes, or to the current ecclesiastical parish.
St Michael's is built on the site of the Roman basilica of Verulamium. [3] According to the 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris, in AD 948 Abbot Wulsin (or Ulsinus) of St Alban's Abbey founded a church on each of the three main roads into the town of St Albans, namely St Michael's, St Peter's and St Stephen's, [4] to serve pilgrims coming to venerate the Abbey's shrine of Saint Alban.
View of the churchyard at St. Michael's Church. The initial church was destroyed in the Nativist Riots of 1844. The unrest began when the Catholic Bishop Francis Kenrick petitioned the Public School Board to allow use of the Douay-Rheims (Catholic) translation of the Bible by Catholic students, instead of forcing them to use the Authorized (King James/Protestant) Version as did other students.