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Latitude: 53.4942 / 53°29'39"N
Longitude: -2.5088 / 2°30'31"W
OS Eastings: 366342
OS Northings: 399847
OS Grid: SJ663998
Mapcode National: GBR BXX1.N4
Mapcode Global: WH986.FFKL
Plus Code: 9C5VFFVR+MF
Entry Name: Church of St. Joseph
Listing Date: 27 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1068480
English Heritage Legacy ID: 213492
ID on this website: 101068480
Location: St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Leigh, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN7
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Leigh South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Atherton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Bedford St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
LEIGH CHAPEL STREET
SD 69 NE
(south side)
6/24 Church of
St. Joseph
II
Roman Catholic church. 1855. By Joseph Hansom. Hammer-
dressed stone with fishscale bands to slate roof. Wide nave
with polygonal chancel, west tower, south porch, north and
south chapels and a sacristy. Gothic Revival. 9-bay nave
with projecting plinth, weathered and gableted buttresses
and 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery. Small gabled
chapels (of later date) and porch. 2 and 3-light chancel
windows. Vents on roof. 3-stage tower with angled buttresses
and saddle roof; octagonal stair turret in one corner,
arched west entrance, statue and niche at second stage, 4
cusped lancets at third stage and 2-light belfry openings
below the gables which have a statue finial and are flanked
by elaborate pinnacles. The roof has gabled dormers and a
cast-iron ridge crest. Interior: the unusually wide hammer-
beam roof has arch braces in two directions. It failed
structurally early in its life and slender cast-iron columns
were inserted to support the hammer-beam ends. West gallery.
Timber fittings. Stained glass. Various statuary. Elaborate
altar and reredos incorporating a heavily enriched canopy
above a crucifix. Brightly painted chancel ceiling.
Listing NGR: SJ6634299847
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