Church of St Bede is a Grade II listed building in the Halton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1983. Catholic church.
Church of St Bede
- WRENN ID
- ghost-pinnacle-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Halton
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood MP: Derek Twigg (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1983
- Type
- Catholic church
- Address
- Church of St Bede, Appleton Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 514 862
- Coordinates
- 53.37129, -2.73116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Bede is a Catholic church built in 1847 by Weightman & Hadfield. It is constructed of red sandstone and features a slate roof. The church has a large west tower with angle buttresses, gargoyles, and crenellations. The windows include paired lancets in the nave, curvilinear designs in the chancel (which contain stained glass), and trefoil shapes in the clerestorey. The main entrance, located in the tower, is designed in the Decorated style.
Inside, the church has side aisles created by alternating round and octagonal sandstone columns that support large Gothic arches. The nave roof displays exposed rafters with scissor bracing and simple hammerbeam supports, while the chancel features rafters arranged into braced collar trusses, also with hammerbeam supports. The walls and ceilings between the timber structures are plastered. The central altar, dating from 1850, is believed to be designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Additionally, there is a large organ positioned at a high level in the tower area.
Local climate
Church of St Bede sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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