Church of St Dunstan (RC) Moston Road and Worsley Avenue Moston

A NEW CHURCH AT MOSTON The new Roman Catholic Church of St Dunstan, Moston, will be opened by the bishop of Salford (Dr T Henshaw) on Sunday morning. The church, which seats 650 people and has cost £15,00 to build, stands at the junction of Moston Lane and Worsley Avenue and is one of beautiful proportions. It is Romanesque in style, with a stately campanile, and a strikingly beautiful lantern tower which gives distinction to the building. The church, of which the marble altars from the Carrara quarries are the gems, is built of dull gold-coloured brick, and situated at the border of town and country in sight of the green fields, it admirably fits its environment. The architects are Messrs Ernest Bower Norris and Frank N Reynolds (sic) of Manchester. The new church takes the place of the temporary buildings in Bluestone Road. [Manchester Guardian  29 May 1937 Page 16].

Reference    Builder 13 March 1936 Page 565
Reference    Manchester Guardian 8 June 1936 page 11 - foundation stone laid 1 June 1936
Reference    Manchester Guardian 29 May 1937 Page 16
Reference    Pevsner/Hartwell; Lancashire Manchester and the South-East page 404-405
Reference    J A Hilton; The Artifice of Eternity pp110-111