Item 5208 - Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854
- Item 5208 - Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854
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Image Info During the summer of 1854 anti-Catholic sentiments were running high. A mob in Bath, incited by a street preacher, ransacked and burned the Protestant church that had been rented by Catholics as a place of worship.
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The Know-Nothing party was held responsible for this act.
The hate and bigotry against Irish Catholics in the mid 19th century was chronicled by Mary Agnes Tincker in "The House of Yorke" (1872).