Heaton Park Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. Congregational church. 1 related planning application.
Heaton Park Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- bitter-lintel-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South MP: Christian Wakeford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Congregational church
- Address
- Heaton Park Congregational Church, Newtown Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 822 038
- Coordinates
- 53.53134, -2.2689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heaton Park Congregational Church is a Congregational church built in 1881 by Alfred Waterhouse. It features red brick construction with pressed brick and stone dressings, topped with steeply pitched slate roofs, showcasing a Gothic Revival style. The building includes a school room or hall on the ground floor and the church above.
A separately-roofed buttressed corner tower contains the entrance, which features a twin doorway set in an arched opening, complete with a traceried tympanum and hood-mould. Lancet stairlights lead up to the church, which is adorned with similar lancets and a large four-light plate-traceried arched window in the gable end. The main gable and tower both have triplets of small lancets that are similar in form but differ in detail. The tower roof ridge has a louvre with decorative ironwork.
The ground floor hall windows are square-headed, featuring expressed relieving arches along with mullions and transoms. The church contains stained glass, and the original staircases, doors, and interior fittings remain intact. This building is a good and complete example of Waterhouse's work, demonstrating economical planning and sensitive detailing.
Local climate
Heaton Park Congregational Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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