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Last Updated
1st December 2001
Special Features

Each month this section will feature one or more new stories relating to 
St Austin's Parish.  Contributions are very welcome,whether in the form
of ideas or full articles. 
 
 
DECEMBER St. Austin's Catholic Boys Brigade

Popular parish group in the 1920's and 1930's

Saint Augustine

The first Archbishop of Canterbury and Patron of St. Austin's parish.

NOVEMBER 2001 Charles Waterton

Excentric landowner and conservationist, Waterton was a founding member and benefactor of St. Austin's parish.

OCTOBER 2001 The Sisters of Charity of St Paul

This order of nuns took charge of teaching at St Austin's school on its opening in 1859, and continued to run the schools until the 1950's

SEPTEMBER  2001 Prayers in the Chantry Chapel 

September 1991 saw a Catholic Priest leading prayers in
Wakefield's Chantry Chapel for the first time in four hundred years

Chapels of Ease

Churches and chapels served by the clergy of St Austin's over the last 170 years.

AUGUST 2001 The Benedictine Nuns of Old Heath Hall 

The story of forty Benedictine Nuns who fled the French Revolution and made their home in Wakefield

The Statue of St. Ann

Possible origins of this Medieval statue