Building Name

Church of St Edward the Confessor (RC) 145 London Road Macclesfield

Date
1937 - 1938
Street
London Road
District/Town
Macclesfield
County/Country
Cheshire, England
Work
New Build
Contractor
John Clayton Limited. Macclesfield

With 250 sittings and originally intended as a chapel-of-ease  to serve the Moss Estate to the south of Macclesfield , the Church of St Edward was built at the sole expense of Edward Lomas, KCSG, JP, the managing director of a local silk firm.

Designs dated 1937. Built 1938-1939, the church was opened for public worship on 30 April 1939,  having been consecrated by the Bishop of Shrewsbury four days earlier, - perhaps the only Roman Catholic church in England to have been consecrated before opening. The Catholic Herald described the architecture of the new church as "a modern adaptation of perpendicular@ with a striking tower which rises from the whole width of the western facade." With its broad western tower, buff brick and round arches, it should be seen as yet a further variation on the Byzantine-Romanesque which had been developed by Norris and Reynolds during the 1930's.

Reference    Builder 31 December 1937 Page 1212
Reference    Builder15 April 1938 Page 771
Reference    Catholic Herald Catholic Herald 28 April 1939 page 11
Reference    Catholic Herald 19th December 1952 - obituary of Edward Lomas
Reference    Hyde/Pevsner: Cheshire page 457