This photo shows the Consecration of St Norberts, Spalding on the 3rd September 1904. In the centre is Bishop Heylen of Namur, flanked by the Abbot of Manchester to the left and Abbot Guedens of Tongerloo to the right. Next to the Abbot of Manchester is Father Thomas Van Bisen first parish priest of Spalding’s Catholic Church.
The first Catholic Church in Spalding was built in 1876-7. The site for the Church, on the corner of St Thomas’s street ( as it was called then ) and Henrietta Street was purchased in 1874.
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