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Holy Rood Church, Swindon
Holy Rood Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1851 as a chapel and was rebuilt as a church in 1905. It is situated on the corner of Groundwell Road and Lincoln Street in the centre of the town. It was designed by Edward Doran Webb as a Gothic Revival church and was the first Roman Catholic church built in and around the town since the Reformation.Swindon: Churches
in ''A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 9,'' from '''' (London: Victoria County History, 1970), 144-159.


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Foundation

In 1848, two years before the

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