A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 17, Calne. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2002.
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'Calne: Roman catholicism', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 17, Calne, (London, 2002) pp. 109. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol17/p109 [accessed 25 April 2024]
ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
There is no evidence of Roman Catholic recusancy at Calne. Services were held in the town in the Second World War, (fn. 1) and c. 1947 a small garage in Oxford Road was extended and converted to a temporary church. (fn. 2) A new brick church, dedicated to St. Edmund Rich, was built on a nearby site in 1962 (fn. 3) and was open in 2000.