Who Built Wigan's Churches

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Edmund Sharpe, architect of St. Catharine, Scholes and All Saints, The Parish Church

Pat Sharp 2 May 2025 No Comments

Edmund Sharpe (1809 – 77), an architect based in Lancaster, was responsible for two churches in Wigan. He designed the new church of St. Catharine in Scholes, which was consecrated [...]

St. Francis, Kitt Green, a challenge and a pleasure

Pat Sharp 1 April 2025 No Comments

We have been researching this church for some time and are enjoying putting together its story. It’s entirely different to other Wigan churches – both in appearance and in the [...]

Thomas Rickman, architect of St. David, Haigh and St. John the Divine, Pemberton

Pat Sharp 30 March 2025 No Comments

Thomas Rickman (1776-1841), architect of St. David’s Haigh and St. John the Divine in Pemberton, was very different to the last architect we wrote about, G.E. Street. As we’ve seen, [...]

Who Built Wigan’s Churches presentation, Saturday 29 March at 12 noon

Pat Sharp 12 March 2025 No Comments

A date for your diary Saturday 29 March at 12 noon Wigan Museum, 41 Library Street, Wigan WN1 1NU We will be giving a talk about the people who were [...]

George Edmund Street, architect of St. Michael and All Angels, Swinley

Pat Sharp 26 February 2025 No Comments

Architect also of ‘The Hall’, the former Rectory in New Market Street. Designer of St. Michael and All Angels school on Duke Street, Swinley and of the Bluecoat Infant school [...]

The Two Esthers

Pat Sharp 15 February 2025 No Comments

St. Michael’s church in Swinley has beautiful stained glass windows designed as a group to show Old Testament prophets such as Elijah and Joshua. They were all designed by Hardman [...]

Wigan churches: architects

Pat Sharp 26 January 2025 No Comments

The question Who Built Wigan’s Churches was deliberately chosen so we could include all sorts of people: those who paid for the churches, the builders who actually built them and [...]

Roman Catholic churches in Wigan

Pat Sharp 18 December 2024 No Comments

Our background is in Church of England churches but as soon as we started this project, we realised that we wanted to research Roman Catholic churches in Wigan. You only [...]

The Johnson family of Bickershaw

Pat Sharp 12 December 2024 No Comments

One thing that intrigues us is that a number of churches were paid for by a single family. For example, Nathaniel Eckersley, cotton mill owner, financed St. James in Poolstock. [...]

Christmas has always been an eagerly anticipated time in Wigan’s churches. Special services were organised, choirs practised, churches were decorated, cribs were unpacked and carefully arranged, Christmas Fairs and pantomimes [...]

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