Church of St Joseph and Attached Presbytery is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. Church.

Church of St Joseph and Attached Presbytery

WRENN ID
hallowed-chapel-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Lancashire
Constituency
West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1988
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Joseph and Attached Presbytery, Crow Orchard Road, Wrightington
OS grid reference
SD 537 109
Coordinates
53.59275, -2.70076
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Joseph and the attached presbytery is a Roman Catholic church built in 1892 by James Sinnott. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features slate roofs. The church includes a nave, a south porch, north and south transepts, a crossing tower, and an apsidal chancel. The nave has three bays with windows that contain two trefoiled lights under pointed heads with quatrefoils. The porch is gabled, and its outer doorway is chamfered in two orders. The west window consists of four lights under a pointed head with tracery. The crossing tower is topped with a pyramid roof and has two bell openings on each side, each with two lights and pointed heads. The apse is three-sided and features paired trefoiled lancet windows. The north transept has two similar windows in its north wall, along with a rose window above. The south transept also contains a rose window and is linked to the presbytery by a single-storey lean-to. The presbytery has two projecting square bays under hipped roofs, each with sashed windows that lack glazing bars, separated by flat-faced mullions; the ground floor has two-light windows, while the first floor has three-light windows.

Inside, the nave roof is boarded, with trusses that have curved braces to collars supported by corbels. The crossing arches are pointed and chamfered in two orders, with the inner orders springing from semi-octagonal responds on carved corbels. The south transept houses an organ, while the north transept is separated from the crossing by a timber screen. The chancel features alabaster inlay below the window level, with stencil decoration on the reveals. Behind the altar, there is an iron openwork canopy.

Local climate

Church of St Joseph and Attached Presbytery sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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