St Michael's Catholic Church

(Etching by William Ellis after a drawing by P. H. Witton)|alt=Burnt-out shell of a building]] The building was first erected in 1726, but was burnt down by the 1791 Priestley Riots, which targeted Dr. Joseph Priestley, who had been the minister at the Unitarian New Meeting since 1780. The Unitarian New Meeting House was rebuilt ten years later and reopened in 1803. When the New Meeting House became unsuitable for its congregation, they started construction on a new place of worship on Broad Street. The New Meeting House was purchased, remodelled and consecrated as a Roman Catholic Church in 1862, at the time catering for a large influx of Irish and Italian immigrants who had settled in the…