The Diocese of Salford was founded in 1850. It covers a relatively small geographical area in the north west of England, extending to the north into Lancashire, west towards Liverpool, south towards northern Cheshire and east towards the Pennines. The cathedral is in Salford, and is dedicated to St John the Evangelist. 184 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2014).
St Mary’s was designed by Pugin & Pugin and exhibits an obvious debt to the architecture of E. W. Pugin. The... Read More
A late nineteenth century design by Herbert Tijou, transformed by a fairly imaginative remodelling by Reynolds &... Read More
A major work of the Gothic Revival, entering its ‘archaeological’ phase. The building is an expression of Catholic... Read More
An interesting and important design by E. W. Pugin, deploying favoured motifs to impressive effect. The church was... Read More
A good example of an innovative church design of about the time of the Second Vatican Council, on a fan-shaped plan and... Read More
A modest church of mid-twentieth century date without strong architectural pretensions.The township of Swinton was... Read More
An ambitious design built about the time of the Second Vatican Council, with an unusual arrangement of double naves... Read More
A large and plain stone-built interwar church, built in the garden of West Lodge, a villa of 1834, which is now used as... Read More
A simple and economical church of the 1960s built from designs by Arthur Farebrother & Partners using the Lanner... Read More
A striking building of some architectural quality in a neo-Romanesque idiom. It makes a positive contribution to the... Read More
A striking but nonetheless mainstream design of the early 1960s (i.e. before the Second Vatican Council) with... Read More
A substantial stone-built church in fourteenth century Gothic style, and an early design by Peter Paul Pugin, built for... Read More
