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The Church of St George, Bolton, is a
redundant church A redundant church, now referred to as a "closed church", is a church building that is no longer used for Christian worship. The term most frequently refers to former Anglican churches in the United Kingdom, but may also be used for disused churc ...
in
Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...
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Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...
, England (). It was designated a Grade II*
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on 26 April 1974. It was completed in 1796 and had a shallow chancel and south chapel added or rebuilt 1907 by James Simpson. It closed in 1975, and is now a crafts centre. In 1806, a set of
change ringing Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memor ...
bells was cast by John Rudhall for the church, to celebrate Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar. In 1976 the bells were removed from the closed church and destined for a local scrapyard when they were acquired by the
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. In 1977 the bells were shipped to Victoria, and they were first rung in their new home in 1987, once a tower had been built to house them. They are now the oldest "complete" ring of bells in Australia.


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List of churches in Greater Manchester This is a partial list of churches in Greater Manchester, North West England, split according to metropolitan district. There is a mixture of Christian denominations in Greater Manchester, including churches aligned to Orthodox Christianity, ...
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Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester There are 236 Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England. In the United Kingdom, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural ...


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Churches completed in 1796 18th-century churches in the United Kingdom
Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...
Buildings and structures in Bolton 1796 establishments in England {{GreaterManchester-struct-stub