St Mary's Church, Lower Ince

Last updated February 23, 2019

St Mary's Church is in Warrington Road, Lower Ince, Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.^[1]

Ince-in-Makerfield or Ince is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. The population of the Ince ward at the 2011 census was 13,486, but a southern part of Ince was also listed under the Abram ward. Adding on this area brings the total in 2011 to 15,664.

Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas, 10 miles (16 km) south-west of Bolton, 12 miles (19 km) north of Warrington and 17 miles (27.4 km) west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 103,608, whilst the wider borough has a population of 318,100.

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972; and designated a functional city region on 1 April 2011.

Old church

The previous church was built in 1887, and designed by the Lancaster architects Paley, Austin and Paley. Two local industrialists donated £5,000 (equivalent to £510,000in 2016)^[2] each to its cost. The church was built in red brick, and was distinguished by having a bellcote at the east end by a tall, slender spirelet. It was also unusual in that it had narrow aisles, forming passages down the sides of the church. The church was built on a coalfield, and subsequently suffered damage from subsidence, which led to its demolition in 1978.^[3] Pollard and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series describe it as having been a "grand" church.^[4] Brandwood et al state that the practice designed a number of urban churches around this time, and they consider that this was the most important, with "real character and individuality".^[5]

Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is on the River Lune and has a population of 52,234; the wider City of Lancaster local government district has a population of 138,375.

An aisle is, in general (common), a space for walking with rows of seats on both sides or with rows of seats on one side and a wall on the other. Aisles can be seen in airplanes, certain types of buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parliaments and legislatures, courtrooms, theatres, and in certain types of passenger vehicles. Their floors may be flat or, as in theatres, stepped upwards from a stage.

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner was a German, later British scholar of the history of art, especially of architecture.

Present church

The new church was converted from a school built in the 1870s. It contains some stained glass dating from about 1889 and from 1923, which was moved from the old church and re-set in the present church.^[4]

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References

Citations

↑ St Mary, Lower Ince, Church of England , retrieved 14 December 2012
↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
↑ Brandwood et al. (2012), pp. 148, 236.
1 2 Pollard & Pevsner (2006), p. 210
↑ Brandwood et al. (2012), p. 148.

Sources

Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10910-5

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Photographs of the old church before and during its demolition

Coordinates: 53°32′00″N2°37′03″W / 53.5333°N 2.6175°W / 53.5333; -2.6175

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[1] St Mary, Lower Ince, Church of England , retrieved 14 December 2012

[inflation-UK-2] UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 6 November 2017.

[FOOTNOTEBrandwoodAustinHughesPrice2012148,_236-3] Brandwood et al. (2012), pp. 148, 236.

[FOOTNOTEPollardPevsner2006210-4] 1 2 Pollard & Pevsner (2006), p. 210

[FOOTNOTEBrandwoodAustinHughesPrice2012148-5] Brandwood et al. (2012), p. 148.