December 5th, 2020 | Uncategorised
A town centre property said to date originally from 1609, making it the oldest Catholic church building in the Diocese of Wrexham. A simple chapel was established in 1947-48 in an old stable block behind what had been a fish and chip shop. Said to be the first church outside Portugal dedicated to Our Lady […]
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A modest post-war suburban church, using modern materials to provide a spacious, flexible interior.
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An unexceptional brick built church with a pleasant interior but of no architectural importance.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
As an early C19 Baptist chapel converted to a Roman Catholic Church the building, with its attached priests house, is of local interest.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
An early-mid 1960s church at the heart of a post-war social housing development. Designed in a stripped round-arched style and still with an aisled, longitudinal plan, it does not have significant architectural interest but, nonetheless, has a light, welcoming interior.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A simple functional building of the 1950s, without special architectural interest.
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A striking modern church by Gerard Goalen. It is notable for its dalle de verre stained glass by Dom Charles Norris and (the designs dating from 1956) as one of the earliest churches in England to be influenced by the Liturgical Movement.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A powerful and expressive centrally planned, concrete-framed building, designed by the local architect Henry Fedeski, and strongly influenced by Gerard Goalen’s church of Our Lady of Fatima, Harlow. Like that church, it incorporates an extensive scheme of brightly-coloured glass designed by Dom Charles Norris of Buckfast Abbey. The building is almost unaltered since its completion in 1963.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
A building of major significance in the diocese, and nationally, illustrating one architect’s response, highly individual and creative yet driven by the liturgical programme, to post-Vatican II requirements. Richard Gilbert Scott’s T-plan building is a remarkable design, combining modern construction and forms with high quality fittings and artworks, and is very little altered.
March 12th, 2019 | Uncategorised
An unpretentious but effective design by Arthur Young in fourteenth-century style, the first of a handful of English Gothic designs by Young in the diocese. The interior, with its varied and characteristic waggon roofs, is especially well-handled. The church contains good stained glass by Patrick Nuttgens, a local resident, Lavers & Westlake and others. Although contrasting in style, the church’s external roughcast finish fits in well with the Arts and Crafts residential character of the conservation area.
