St Werburgh’s Church Burslem

// Interesting Anglo-Catholic church building built in the 1950s designed by Wood, Goldstraw & Yorath (of Tunstall and Hanley), the church building is in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent This brings up an interesting fact about the name of this church, St Werburgh church, which was named after a saint called Werburgh, who was the daughter of an […]

Holy Trinity Church, Hartshill

// cool interesting church building in Hartshill, stoke on trent, Staffordshire, built and paid for by Herbert Minton son of the potter Thomas Minton in 1842 using a design by George Gilbert Scott References https://www.sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib4_1221750011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gilbert_Scott?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartshill%2C_Staffordshire?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke-on-Trent?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire?wprov=sfla1

St Gregory’s Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery Longton

St Gregory’s Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery // This grade II listed Catholic church building and its Presbytery iin Longton was designed by Frederick King under the architectural practice Wood, Goldstraw, and Yorath 1970 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1471995 This church always reminds me of a bigger version of the Arnos Grove Underground station by Charles Holden, but it […]