Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick with Attached Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1999. Church. 1 related planning application.
Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick with Attached Presbytery
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-thatch-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden MP: Yasmin Qureshi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1999
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick with Attached Presbytery, BL1 1NS
- OS grid reference
- SD 718 089
- Coordinates
- 53.5765, -2.42734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick, built in 1861 and designed by architect Charles Holt, features a combination of roughly coursed and squared stone with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof that has scalloped bands. Attached to the church is the presbytery, which has a rubble facade and a brick rear, also with a slate roof.
The church has a nave with a single aisle and a tower located at the south-west corner. The exterior includes a two-stage tower with a short spire and clasping buttresses on the lower stage, which features a simple chamfered arched doorway on the south face, topped by a statue in a niche. The upper stage contains bell chamber lights and is chamfered to create an octagonal base for the short copper spire. The west end of the church is asymmetrical, with a roof that sweeps over the north aisle, which has a west doorway. A three-light window with foiled lancets is located in the west of the nave, above which is a rose window. The nave has four bays, with a low triple lancet window in the western bay beneath the gallery, and paired foiled lancets in the other bays.
The presbytery is three stories high, featuring a single-window range in an asymmetrical gable, with a catslide roof to the right over an entrance that has an added porch with a quatrefoil window above. A canted bay window is present in the main gable to the left, with spired two-light casement windows above, and a three-light window at the gable apex.
Inside, the church features a four-bay northern arcade with octagonal shafts on high bases and double chamfered arches, a panelled wagon roof, and a western gallery. The chancel arch is simply chamfered, and the reredos is traceried with low relief panels on each side. The east window contains stained glass depicting the crucifixion. The interior of the presbytery was not inspected.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick with Attached Presbytery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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