Monton Green Primary School. Eccles College is a further-education college. It opened in 1973 and provides a wide range of A-level and vocational course for school-leavers. Religion As the population of Eccles increased during the Industrial Revolution the medieval parish of Eccles was gradually divided into smaller parishes, and surrounding townships gained their own churches. The Grade II* listed St Andrew's church in St Andrew's Parish was built in the 1870s and opened in 1879 (the tower was added in 1889). Over the next 40 years various decorative improvements were made to the building, including stone carvings, stained glass, and wall paintings (covered in 1965). Four months after the church was consecrated a church school was opened, the forerunner of the present St Andrew's Primary School. A second school in Monton (then part of the parish) opened in 1881. In 1912 Monton became a separate parish with its own church, St Paul's. Roman Catholics living in Eccles originally attended worship at a chapel on the de Trafford estate, south of the Irwell, however the chapel was demolished and replaced by All Saints' Church. The first Rector of the Roman Catholic Parish of Eccles was, from 1879, a Father Sharrocks. The first public Roman Catholic procession in Eccles since the Reformation took place on 18 August 1889. The area has a variety of other churches, including the Church of St James at nearby Hope, and a Baptist church. Other denominations catered for include Methodist New Connexion, Zion Methodist New Connexion, Wesleyan, and The Salvation Army (opened in 1881). Sport The amateur rugby union club Eccles Rugby Football Club were winners of a cup competition organised by Swinton Lions on 4 January 1881 and were first recorded as members of the Lancashire County Rugby Football Union in 1886. Eccles RFC's membership of the RFU lapsed in 1891. The club was re-established in 1897 and has maintained its existence since. Before the first world war Eccles played its rugby at Peel Green Road close to the Barton Swing Aqueduct, between the wars it played on the opposite bank of the Manchester Ship Canal at Redclyffe Road close to Barton Power Station, before moving to its current ground at Gorton Street in the summer of 1948. The amateur rugby league club Salford City Roosters, formerly known as the Eccles Roosters, are also based in Eccles and were formed in 1977. To the west of