The Diocese of Salford has 184 churches (as of 2014). The cathedral is in Salford and is dedicated to St John the Evangelist. The Diocese of Salford is 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.
An ambitious design in a free Decorated Gothic style by Edward Goldie. The church is the fourth on or near the site,... Read More
A well-detailed church of the 1920s in Lombard Romanesque style. The building was significantly reduced in size after... Read More
A plain design of the early 1980s, not of architectural or historic interest. The parish was erected in 1959 and a... Read More
A well-designed church of the early 1980s, with contemporary presbytery and parish hall. The church interior is... Read More
The most architecturally ambitious pre-Catholic Emancipation church in the diocese, and a soaring early Gothic Revival... Read More
A simple building of the late 1960s, designed as a church hall to serve a future complex, only realised in... Read More
A large basilican church of the 1950s, the unremarkable exterior of which belies an impressive interior dominated... Read More
A modest interwar building by Harold Greenhalgh, built as a chapel-of-ease to St Joseph’s, Blackburn. There are no... Read More
An imposing building on a prominent corner site, by a little-known local architect, who built elsewhere in the... Read More
The church is typical of those in the area designed by Greenhalgh & Williams during the 1950s. This example is more... Read More
The parish of St Brendan, Harwood was formed from St Columba’s, Tonge Moor in 1971, and on 16 May 1974 the... Read More
The church occupies the site of the first Catholic place of worship in Bolton. It was built in 1897 to the design of... Read More
