A UNIQUE Warrington church – “shared” by the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches – is to close next month after existing for 34 years.
Dwindling congregations and rising costs have made it impossible for the church, in St Bridget’s Close, Cinnamon Brow, to continue.
Parish priest, Father John McLoughlin said: “It is very sad. But if people will not attend services, it is only to be expected.
“They want churches for weddings and funerals but they don’t want to attend regular services.”
The Church of the Resurrection and St Bridget, dates from 1988 when the foundation stone was laid on land originally intended for a Roman Catholic church.
But the idea of a joint church was born in 1984 when Bishop David Shepherd, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, and Archbishop Derek Warlock, RC Prelate of Liverpool, put forward the proposal.
They were close friends with a common philosophy of “better together.”
The project was discussed and approved by both congregations.
Final service at the church will be on Sunday, will be on Sunday, November 13 at 9.30am and all members of the congregation are welcome.
The church building is of modern design and was built to serve a growing population in the area as a result of the Warrington New Town, during the late 1960s. It is rectangular in plan, built of buff-coloured brick with a pitched and slated roof brought down onto metal columns.
Its future has yet to be decided.
3 Comments
Can it be saved?
Know someone price?
Curious if it will be for sale hopefully doesn’t get bumped off to the Council or anyone planning to build houses or flats, either needs to be kept as a church, demolished and turned into a park, used as a large GP since Warrington’s short or turned into a single home, would love to convert it to a home myself but imagine be way too costly