Albion Congregational Church

Albion Congregational Church is a church built between 1890 and 1895 by John Brooke. It is constructed of ashlar stone with a slate roof and features a nave, aisle passages, clerestory, transepts, a north-west tower, and a chancel flanked by an organ chamber and vestry. The church is designed in the Gothic revival style, specifically in a Decorated style. It has an 8-bay nave with 5-bay aisles, a weathered plinth, and flying buttresses that end in gabled pinnacles above a coped parapet. The aisle windows are 3-light, while the tall paired clerestory lights have 2-lights with flat traceried heads. The transept windows are 5-light, and the west and east windows are 7-light, all featuring curvilinear tracery beneath raked parapets. The chancel is 2-bay and topped with an elaborate fleche. The 4-stage tower has set-back weathered and gableted buttresses, an arched doorway, cusped lancet windows, a 3-light transomed window on the third stage, and clock faces in front of blind arcading on the fourth stage. The spire includes lucarnes and is set back behind a parapet with corner pinnacles.

Inside, the church has red sandstone ashlar facing throughout. There is a narthex below the gallery, and the nave arcade is moulded on octagonal columns with foliated capitals and moulded bases. The lofty nave features a roof supported by trusses with angelic hammer beams that spring from carved corbels. The timberwork includes a pulpit with a sounding board, pews, stalls, an organ case, and chancel panelling. The stained glass in the transepts and east window was created by Morris and Co. The organ, built in 1894 by T. C. Lewis, was rebuilt in 1954. The reredos is a tiled memorial to both World Wars, first installed in 1921 by Pilkingtons, and there are memorial plaques to Hugh and Betsy Mason.