St Clare's, Middlesbrough is a

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in the Brookfield area of

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, England. It was built in 1965 and is located close to the junction of the A19 and the A174.

History

Construction

The Church of St Clare Of Assisi was built from 1964 to 1965. It was originally part of the

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of St Francis of Assisi. It cost £35,000 and was designed by Thomas A. Crawford. On 11 February 1965 it was opened by the

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Gordon Wheeler.

Developments

The church is of a fairly large size and of a typical design for churches built in the 1960s. The church was re-ordered after the

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, resulting in the tabernacle being moved to a separate Blessed Sacrament chapel in the church.

Parish

In 1967, the

of St Francis of Assisi, centred in

Acklam, Middlesbrough Acklam is an area in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is believed that the settlement is Anglo-Saxon in origin, the name is Old English for "place at the oak clearings" or "place of oaks". At the 2011 census, the Ac ...

, was divided and St Clare's became a separate parish. This was caused by the greatly increased quantity of housing built in the locality and the consequent increased population. In 2013, it reverted from being a

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to being again within the parish of St Francis of Assisi. It has one Sunday Mass at 9 am.St Clare, Middlesbrough
from

Diocese of Middlesbrough The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese based in Middlesbrough, England and is part of the province of Liverpool. It was founded on 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley which ...

, retrieved 7 February 2023

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