St Cross Church and Vicarage, Stretton Road, Appleton Thorn, Warrington

The village of Appleton Thorn, near Warrington has been provided with a new church and vicarage, now about to be reopened. The cost of the church has been £3,000, which is being defrayed by Mr. Piers Egerton Warburton, at whose expense the ancient church of St. Werburgh, at Warburton, near Lymm, was rebuilt some two years since. [Building News 14 January 1887 page 65]

LISTING TEXT - Church 1886 by Edmund Kirby at the expense of Piers Egerton Warburton (of Arley). Red sandstone; red tile roof; oak-framed north porch on sandstone plinth. Cruciform with 2-stage tower over crossing. Low hip-roofed transepts; 3-window aisleless nave; one-window chancel; baptistry as a canted bay window projecting from the west end. Rose window above baptistry; Geometrical east window; straight-headed reticulated north and south windows to nave and chancel. Interior: Cradle roof to nave and chancel; crossing arches have continuous mouldings with no capitals; organ in north transept; east window has glass of 1870; stone pulpit. "Better than one expects him [Edmund Kirby] to be": Pevsner and Hubbard. Listing NGR: SJ6377883854

The adjacent vicarage on Green Lane has been converted into a day nursery.

Reference           Building News 14 January 1887 page 65