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Anti-Catholic riots

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:headhit: Some time ago, I remember reading about anti Catholic riots in Birmingham possibly during the 18th cent. which resulted in a new Catholic Church being torn down, trouble is I’ve forgotten where I read it.
I’d be grateful if anyone has any info on this and could help please?
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Type catholic riots into the search bar at the top of the page, there is a thread about the riots there.
 
There were far more anti-protestant riots (meaning the 'non-conformist' churches) in Birmingham than anti-Catholic. The free thinkers like Dr Priestley had a hard time, which is sad, considering the amount he had contributed to scientific research in the late 18th century. Poor man, after his house was burned down he emigrated to the USA, but was too old to do in that different environment as much as he could have done here.
So far as the anti-Catholic feeling was concerned, we have to remember that Henry VIII's time, that view was enforced by the authorities, apart from a short period under his daughter Mary Tudor, and very nearly under James 2, until he was 'dealt with'. It was not until 1829 that the Catholic church was officially permitted to hold services in public. That must have been very difficult for the many immigrants who came from Catholic countries. But there are records of under-cover Catholic meetings almost all the intervening time.
Peter
 
Peter Walker said:
There were far more anti-protestant riots (meaning the 'non-conformist' churches) in Birmingham than anti-Catholic. The free thinkers like Dr Priestley had a hard time, which is sad, considering the amount he had contributed to scientific research in the late 18th century. Poor man, after his house was burned down he emigrated to the USA, but was too old to do in that different environment as much as he could have done here.
So far as the anti-Catholic feeling was concerned, we have to remember that Henry VIII's time, that view was enforced by the authorities, apart from a short period under his daughter Mary Tudor, and very nearly under James 2, until he was 'dealt with'. It was not until 1829 that the Catholic church was officially permitted to hold services in public. That must have been very difficult for the many immigrants who came from Catholic countries. But there are records of under-cover Catholic meetings almost all the intervening time.
Peter
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St. Peters RC Church at St. Peters Place just off Broad Street was the first Catholic church built in the Birmingham Archdiocese, [presumably after the Reformation] to look 'Like a factory'. No doubt the spire was added later.

ladywood
 
One of the interesting things here in this Forum raised by sjjones' thread is that The Gordon Riots in 1790 were a ferocious series of anti-Catholic actions initially in London though I believe elsewhere too..and that Lord George Gordon after whom the riots were called in history converted to Judaism in BIRMINGHAM in 1787.
 
My Mother was a Catholic, she went to St Chads and was taunted every day when a child. When she married and went to live in Scotland she was ignored for the very same reason...Cat
 
I still remember reading somewhere that a catholic church was pulled down by rioters either shortly after it was built or during the build.
Does anyone know which church it was and where I read this, or have I imagined it?
 
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