Holy Cross Church
In December 1999 the daughter church of St. Andrew's was closed after serving the area around Deansgate Lane since 1929, though services had been held before this in St. Andrew's Day School and Mission House since 1888. The congregation of St. Andrew's joined the congregation of nearby St. Catherine's whilst a new church was being built.
St.
Catherine's church, opened in 1969 as a multipurpose
building, is now Holy Cross church hall used for social events and is
also
let out to other groups. A small chapel, part of the St. Catherine's
building,
has been retained and is now called The Chapel of St. Andrew and St.
Catherine
to carry on the names of the original churches.
The new church, replacing both St. Andrew's and St. Catherine's,
is named Holy Cross Church, and was opened for its first
service,
a Confirmation service, on 6th May 2001 and was consecrated by the
Bishop
of Chester on 16th September 2001.
Holy Cross is built on land adjacent
to the church hall. It is of a modern, innovative design by architects
Nick
Rank and Mark Pierce of Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams and the builder
was
David Flannagan of Kingsmere Construction. The main structure is steel
framed
with blockwork infill and has a wooden roof clad in stainless steel.
External walls are rendered in roughcast terracotta. A circular
baptistry tower on
the south east corner is of clear glass in an oak frame. Internally the
structural
steelwork has been angled to complement the unusual angles of the roof
to
create a focus towards the altar in the north east corner of the
church.
The stone font from St Andrew's church is set on a circle of green
Cumberland
slate. The rest of the floor is of polished oak.
The new church is linked to the hall by a corridor which has the
vestry,
flower vestry, disabled toilet, store room and the boiler room for the
underfloor
heating. Click for details of:
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