Building record 10823 - Church of St Werburgh, Bath Street

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 469814 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

St Werburgh Church is a Roman Catholic church, built 1873-75 but extended and altered by Edmund Kirby in 1913-14. It is of buff sandstone with a grey slate roof. Continuous aisled nave and sanctuary, liturgical orientation reversed. The interior has alternating round and octagonal columns with rich foliar capitals; boarded wagon roof with trusses having stop-chamfered ties and octagonal posts; arched sanctuary truss with timber tracery.

<2> English Heritage/DCMS, Various, Notification of inclusion, amendment or removal from the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, Ellis, V 26/09/2013 (Written Communication). SCH4885.

Attached is a presbytery built in the gothic style in 1875 to the designs of Edmund Kirby.