St Simon, Salford was created as a district church in the year 1845.
It was one of approximately ten such district churches built to handle the burgeoning growth of population in that township.
It lay within the civil parish boundaries of Manchester St Mary and St Denys (The Cathedral Church).
Here is a brief 1848 historical overview for this chapelry: St. Simon's church, Salford, of which the first stone was laid March 24th, 1845;
an ecclesiastical parish was assigned to it, out of [Sacred] Trinity district.
