Church of St Wilfred (Roman Catholic) is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Wilfred (Roman Catholic)

WRENN ID
worn-gravel-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Mid Cheshire MP: Andrew Cooper (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Wilfred (Roman Catholic), Witton Street, Northwich, CW9 5NP
OS grid reference
SJ 662 740
Coordinates
53.26212, -2.50679
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Wilfred, a Roman Catholic church, was built between 1864 and 1866 by Edmund Kirby and later enlarged from 1901 to 1902. It is constructed of brown brick with a graded grey slate roof, featuring blue brick bands and dressings, and stone cills. The church has an aisled nave, a north porch, a chancel, and a fleche belfry with blank lucarnes. The west window consists of two pairs of lancets with plate tracery, while the north and south windows are also paired lancets. At the east end, there is a triple lancet window with a rose window above. The nave and chancel share a continuous roof.

Inside, the church has an impressive scale, featuring six bay north and south arcades supported by octagonal softwood posts, with small framing above and arch-braced trusses.

Local climate

Church of St Wilfred (Roman Catholic) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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