An economical Gothic design of the 1930s by Pugin & Pugin, lying at the heart of the historic shipyard in the Barrow Island Conservation Area. The church closed in 2009.

A mission was established on Barrow Island in 1895 and a tin church built in 1901. The presbytery (Vickers House) of c.1890 was acquired in 1924. The present church was built in 1932-33 to replace the tin church, to an economical design by Pugin & Pugin of Liverpool. The builders were Rainey Bros; the church seated 600 and cost £7,000. ‘Owing to the kindness of Lord Richard Cavendish and permission of the Office of Works, the foundation stone was obtained from the famous Furness Abbey ruins’ (Barrow News, 16 July 1932). The church was radically altered in the 1970s, when the interior was subdivided to create a worship area at the west end and a social area at the former east end. The building was further reordered in 2000 in accordance with the requirements of the neo-catechumenal way. The church closed in 2009.

Description

A red brick neo-Gothic church of the early 1930s, under a slate roof. Lancet windows, bays divided by pilasters/buttresses. The interior has not been inspected.

Entry amended by AHP 18.09.2026

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