Church of St Patrick is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. Church.

Church of St Patrick

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Oldham
Constituency
Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 March 1993
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Patrick, John Street
OS grid reference
SD 922 047
Coordinates
53.53918, -2.11898
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Patrick is a Roman Catholic church built between 1869 and 1870, with remodeling completed in 1907. It was designed by Mitchell of Oldham. The church features coursed and squared rubble made from small blocks and has a banded Welsh slate roof. The structure includes a nave with a western narthex, a clerestory, lean-to aisles, and a chancel, all designed in the Early English style.

The west front has a gabled porch with triple lights at the apex and trefoiled windows on either side. Above the porch are three stepped lancets, and a bellcote is supported by corbels at the gable apex. The nave consists of four bays, each with wide paired lancets, and the confessionals are expressed as gables. The lower western bay features paired windows above the north door. The apsidal chancel is adorned with wide lancet windows.

Inside, there is an organ loft over the western narthex and four-bay arcades. The chancel is richly decorated with a reredos, and the east windows contain stained glass.

Local climate

Church of St Patrick sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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