Church of St Andrew is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1997. Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- quiet-doorway-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Waterloo Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 570 064
- Coordinates
- 53.55282, -2.64944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a church built in 1882 by FW Hunt of London, constructed from common brick in English bond with slate roofs, designed in the Early English style. The layout features a nave and chancel combined into one tall vessel, a north-west bell turret, north and south aisles with porches at the west ends, a chapel at the east end of the north aisle, and a vestry and organ house near the east end of the south aisle.
The exterior includes buttressed aisles that are windowless. Each gabled porch has coupled square-headed doorways set in a blank arch with a patterned brick tympanum, along with brick gable copings and kneelers. The nave features a brick corbel table and short, 2-centred arched clerestory windows arranged in three pairs plus a single window at the east end, all containing two short arched lights and a roundel, with geometric leaded stained glass. The south side has a tall gabled vestry and organ house with an outshut to the east, stepped gable coping, a segmental-headed doorway, small lancet windows, and two circular windows. The west gable wall showcases two tall 2-light lancet windows with simple arched tracery, while the east gable wall has three similar windows, each with an oculus in the gable. The north-west corner features a square turret topped with a wooden-framed belfry, which has a tall pyramidal cap with simple lucarnes and a weather vane finial, while the other corners have drum pinnacles.
Inside, the church has three-bay aisle arcades consisting of wide 2-centred brick arches supported by short cylindrical columns with crocketed caps. The roof is made up of slender queen-strut trusses that extend into the chancel, which is separated from the nave by three steps and a finely carved wooden screen. The chancel includes a piscina and sedilia, carved choir stalls, and a wooden altar with carved panels.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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