St Mary's Church (RC) Astley Street Dukinfield

Designed by John Palmer and opened in November 1825, the first St Mary’s Church, with presbytery and schools, was built on a site obtained from the Astley family on Astley Street, close to Dukinfield Colliery. It was described as a neat chapel of the Grecian style able to accommodate 1,000 worshippers, but mining subsidence soon rendered the building unsafe, resulting in its demolition in 1848.

Reference           Hartwell, Pevsner Buildings of England: Cheshire page 337