St. Michael's Church (Ditton)

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St. Michael in Widnes

St Michael's Church is a Roman Catholic church in St. Michael's Road, Ditton , Widnes , Cheshire . It is on the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II * building.

history

German Jesuits , who had to leave the German Reich in 1872 because of Bismarck's Kulturkampf , founded the church. The Jesuit theology students formed a community in Ditton Hall until a new training center was available in Valkenburg , the Netherlands, in 1895. Between 1876 and 1879 they built the church designed by Henry Clutton. The cost of £ 16 000 was taken over by Lady Mary Stapleton-Bretherton of Ditton Hall. In 1979 the interior was rearranged. The church belongs to the Archdiocese of Liverpool .

architecture

The neo-Gothic church consists of red ashlar sandstone with a slate roof on the barrel vault. The floor plan is cross-shaped with a west tower. The altar and lectern are made of Clipsham stone, the glass comes from Cologne.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, Halton - 1325926 | Historic England. Retrieved April 20, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Corporation of Widnes (ed.): History of Widnes . Widnes 1961, p. 67-68 .
  3. ^ Richard Pollard, Nikolaus Pevsner: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West . In: The Buildings of England . Yale University Press , New Haven and London 2006, ISBN 0-300-10910-5 , pp. 657 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 45 "  N , 2 ° 45 ′ 39.6"  W.