Wolverhampton MP backs efforts to save historic Wolves church
An MP has welcomed support for a campaign to save an historic church with links to the founders of Wolves.
More than 1,100 people have signed an online petition to save St Luke's in Blakenhall, which was formally closed last year but has not been used since 2009.
And today Pat McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South East, who has been involved in past efforts to raise funds to repair the church, said he welcomed local involvement in trying to secure the future of the site.
The church in Upper Villiers Street is next to St Luke's School, the birth place of St Luke's FC which later became Wolverhampton Wanderers. It is said the club's founders Jack Brodie and Jack Baynton placed a notice on the church doors in 1877 inviting people interested in playing football to attend the meeting that started the club.
City historian Aaron Gill has since set up the online petition to rescue the building and has attracted more than 1,000 supporters.
