St James: Walshaw Road Woolfold Bury

Low, of squared stone, randomly coursed, with a squat crossing tower. Four light windows of late Gothic character (South East Lancashire Page 183)

NEW LANCASHIRE CHURCH: CONSECRATION AT BURY – The new church of St James, Woolfold, Bury (built from the designs of Mr Robert Martin, diocesan architect and surveyor) was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester (Dr Guy Warman) on Saturday. The church provides accommodation for about 300 persons and is so built that it can easily be extended in conformity with the architect’s designs. The living is a new one, the vicar being the Rev G E T Body. ….. In 1898 an iron church was built in Goodlad Street, Woolfold, and that church is now superseded by the new building. It has cost £7,800, towards which £7,100 has been raised.[ Manchester Guardian 27 July 1931 page 4]'

Reference    Builder 4 January 1929 page 37 - £5,000 raised towards the cost of the new church
Reference    Builder 9 May 1930 Page 935 - Quantities in course of preparation
Reference    Builder 16 May 1930 Page 977 - Preparation of plans complete
Reference    Builder 8 August 1930. Page 248
Reference    Manchester Guardian 27 July 1931 page 4 - consecration
Reference    Pevsner : Lancashire: South 
Reference    Pevsner Hartwell: South East Lancashire Page 183

ICBS 11830     New Church – grant approved
Minutes:    Volume 34 page 7
Drawings    No plan exists in the IBCS archive