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).
A plain interwar church built to a standard design used by the architect Richard Byrom elsewhere in the diocese. The... Read More
A modest 1960s combined church and parish hall of portal frame construction. It is built on part of the site of the... Read More
A solid mid-Victorian Gothic Revival church by a local architect which retains a good set of fittings from the 1870s... Read More
A modest design by Reynolds & Scott, built to serve a growing part of the Oldham suburbs, its simplicity reflecting... Read More
A well-detailed and little-altered large urban church in modern basilican Romanesque style by Harold Greenhalgh, a... Read More
The earliest Catholic church in Oldham, built in 1839 and an early design by M. E. Hadfield. Some of this early church... Read More
A typical example of the many economically-designed and built churches-cum-parish halls built on housing estates in the... Read More
A well-detailed Perpendicular Gothic design of the 1830s, with attached Tudor-style presbytery. The interior shows the... Read More
A Gothic Revival church of 1897-8, with major alterations and extensions of 1928, designed in a contextual manner.... Read More
A large Gothic Revival church of 1880-1 by Edward Simpson, doubled in length in the 1930s. It has panelling from three... Read More
A conventional post-war design by a local surveyor, with some unusual details.St Philip’s was founded from St John... Read More
A modest interwar building in traditional style. Pendlebury is situated to the north of Swinton, both now part... Read More
