Comments about ‘Portraits of the past: Preaching in Preston’

If Preston, England is such a revered place for Mormons, why did they build their temple a full 10 miles away in Chorley, England in an act that was totally against the will of the Chorley public?

Surely the town of Preston itself could have come up with some space for the temple given the reported long standing realtionship between the town and the Mormon church.

i lived in preston, and in chorley. I don't have an answer for your question, but I do know that a lot goes into building a temple. I'm sure they would have liked to put it in the middle of preston, or even within the boundaries in some way, but the temple lot is quite large, featuring an MTC, accommodations centre, a stake centre, a good sized temple, good amounts of garden space and even a football pitch.

"Surely the town of Preston itself could have come up with some space for the temple,". . . you're probably right about this, but "some space" wasn't really going to cut it seeing as this temple was hopefully going to serve Scottish, Irish, Welsh and many northern English saints.

they needed more space than a temple of this size usually requires.

like I said before, I really don't know the answer to your question, when I lived in chorley i never heard anyone complain about the temple or anything. perhaps when it was proposed and constructed there were public outcries, but once it was there and the public saw there was nothing to worry about. ..

I think you must have been talking to LDS people primarily when you lived there because I have many friends from the Hartwood Hall area of Chorley that are to this day horrified by the building dominating the skyline in a totally out of context manner with regard to the natural countryside and existing architecture. I agree with them. When you come of the M61 this massive white structure all lit up is so out of place and garish.