St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge

St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church,
Lever Bridge
A Gothic-style church seen from an angle with a transept protruding on the right and the porch formed from the truncated tower to the left
The church from the southwest
St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge is located in Greater Manchester
St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge
St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church,
Lever Bridge
Location in Greater Manchester
53°34′20″N 2°24′18″W / 53.5722°N 2.4051°W / 53.5722; -2.4051
OS grid referenceSD 732,084
LocationDarcy Lever, Bolton,
Greater Manchester
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
ChurchmanshipOpen Catholic
WebsiteSt Stephen and All Martyrs
History
StatusParish church
Consecrated26 June 1845
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II*
Designated26 March 1964
Architect(s)Edmund Sharpe
Architectural typeChurch
StyleGothic Revival
Groundbreaking1842
Completed1844
Construction cost£2,600
Specifications
MaterialsTerracotta, slate roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseManchester
ArchdeaconryBolton
DeaneryWalmsley
ParishLever Bridge

St Stephen and All Martyrs' Church, Lever Bridge, is in Darcy Lever, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Walmsley, the archdeaconry of Bolton, and the diocese of Manchester.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[2] and is the first of three "pot churches" designed by Edmund Sharpe, so-called because they are constructed largely of terracotta.[3]

  1. ^ St Stephen & All Martyrs, Bolton, Church of England, retrieved 17 June 2010
  2. ^ Historic England, "Church of St Stephen and All Martyrs, Bolton (1388051)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 28 May 2012
  3. ^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 157–158, ISBN 0-300-10583-5