Church of Saint Aidan

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The Church of St Aidan is an Anglican parish church on Manchester Road in Sudden, a district on the southern outskirts of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Built between 1913 and 1915, it serves the parish of St Aidan Sudden and All Souls' Heywood within the Diocese of Manchester. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II* listed building and noted for being one of the later works of the architect Temple Moore.

History: The origins of Anglican worship in Sudden date to 1876, when members of St Alban's Church established a Sunday school in an empty shop on what is now Roch Valley Way. A more permanent base followed in 1883 with the construction of St Alban's Mission Room on Howarth Street, which served as a Sunday school and meeting place for the growing community until its demolition in the early 1970s during motorway construction. A further presence was created in 1897, when a mission church dedicated to St Aidan was built off Bolton Road, Marland. Designed by the architect Edgar Wood, it was erected as a mission church to All Souls' Church, Captain Fold, Heywood. In 1908 the building was transferred to the parish and continued in use as a Sunday...