- St Marie's Church, Widnes
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St Marie's Church, Widnes 
St Marie's Church, WidnesCoordinates: 53°21′45″N 2°43′38″W / 53.3624°N 2.7271°W OS grid reference SJ 513 851 Location Widnes, Halton, Cheshire Country England Denomination Roman Catholic Architecture Functional status Redundant Heritage designation Grade II Designated December 2006 Architect(s) E. W. Pugin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1862 Completed 1865 St Marie's Church, Widnes is a redundant Roman Catholic church in Widnes, Halton, Cheshire, England. It was built between 1862 and 1865 to accommodate large numbers of Irish immigrants who had come to work in the chemical factories.[1] The church was opened in 1865 and designed by E. W. Pugin. It is built in brick with some red sandstone dressings. At the east end is a polygonal apse and on the gable at the west end is a bellcote.[2] The organ was built around 1880 by Wadsworth of Manchester.[3]
It was granted Grade II listing in December 2006,[4] following a campaign to save it.[5] The church has been placed on the Buildings at Risk list by the campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage[6] and has been identified by The Victorian Society as being one of the ten most endangered Victorian buildings in Britain.[7]
See also
- Listed buildings in Widnes
References
- ^ Diggle, Rev. G. E. (1961), A History of Widnes, Corporation of Widnes, p. 40
- ^ Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 651, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
- ^ Widnes St. Marie, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=C00177, retrieved 14 August 2008
- ^ "Roman Catholic Church of St Marie, Widnes", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1391829, retrieved 24 April 2011
- ^ Short, Adrian (8 November 2007), "Concerns for church future", Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News (Trinity Mirror North West & North Wales), http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/runcorn-widnes/news/2007/11/08/concerns-for-church-future-50020-20076401/, retrieved 19 March 2008
- ^ Miller, Vikki (21 June 2008), "Record number of churches face demolition", Telegraph.co.uk (Telegraph Media Group), http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2170916/Record-number-of-churches-face-demolition.html, retrieved 24 June 2008
- ^ Wynne-Jones, Jonathan (21 September 2008), "Catholic church 'neglecting' heritage", Sunday Telegraph: 16, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3022100/Catholic-Church-closures-attacked-by-Victorian-Society.html, retrieved 24 June 2008
Categories:- Former churches in England
- Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
- Religious buildings completed in 1865
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Widnes
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