Church of St Hilda is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2003. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Hilda
- WRENN ID
- sombre-ledge-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South MP: Christian Wakeford (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2003
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Hilda, Whittaker Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 822 036
- Coordinates
- 53.5293, -2.26858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Hilda is a church built between 1903 and 1904 by architect F.P. Oakley. It is constructed of white-flecked red brick with terracotta dressings and features a parapetted slate roof with terracotta coped gables, designed in the Perpendicular style. The layout includes a chancel, nave, and aisles all in one, with vestries located at the north-east and south-east. There are north and south porches, with a small tower and fleche above the former. The east end showcases a five-light window, complemented by a two-light window beside the chancel. The vestries have flat-arched windows, while the sides of the aisles are adorned with three-light windows and buttresses with set-offs in between. The doors and blind arches flanking the twin porches feature mouldings that die into the jambs and side buttresses, and there are small windows on the sides. A canted baptistery apse projects out below a six-light west window, featuring small windows with cusping.
Inside, the chancel is highlighted by a richly carved painted and gilded reredos and altar, along with intricately carved choir stalls. The nave has lofty wide brick arcades supported by octagonal stone piers that extend into the chancel. The wide nave and chancel roof includes arch braces to embattled collars rising from stone corbels, with V struts from the collars, windbraces, and two tiers of purlins. The aisle roofs feature tie beam trusses with curved braces on stone corbels. A low stone choir screen and a carved stone font are present at the west end. Many windows are filled with mauve and white coloured chequer-board pattern glass. The combination of various materials and the spacious interior design create an effect reminiscent of a Low Countries hall-church.
Local climate
Church of St Hilda 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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