Listed buildings in Widnes, Cheshire

Widnes has a number of listed buildings. [cite web |url=http://www2.halton.gov.uk/content/environment/planning/forwardplanning/listedconservationareas/listedbuildings?a=5441 |title=Listed Buildings in Halton |accessdate=2007-04-26 |publisher=Halton Borough Council ] Widnes is a town in the borough of Halton, Cheshire.

Grade II*

*St Luke's Church, FarnworthThis a parish church dating from the late 12th century with a 14th century tower and further additions in the 17th and 19th centuries. It is constructed in red sandstone with a slate roof. It consists of a square west tower with a five-bay nave, side aisles and a south transept. The chancel is narrower and less lofty than the nave. The tower, chancel and transept are crenellated and the chancel has crocketted finials. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56055 |title=Images of England: Church of St Luke, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*St Mary's Church, West BankThis is a parish church dating from 1908–10. It is constructed in red sandstone with red tiles to the main roof and lead to the roofs of the aisles. The west tower, five-bay nave, aisles, transepts and chancel are in perpendicular style. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56062 |title=Images of England: Church of St Mary, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*The former power house of the Widnes-Runcorn transporter bridgeThis is a small red sandstone rectangular building built on three levels and dated 1901. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56061 |title=Images of England: Former Transporter Bridge Power House|accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*St Michael's Church, DittonA Roman Catholic church dated 1876–79, it is built in red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its plan is cruciform with an eight-bay arcade which passes the short transepts and takes in the chancel. At the west end of the nave there is a tower with a steep saddleback roof. It was built for a Jesuit community expelled from Germany in 1872. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56058 |title=Images of England: Church of St Michael, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]

Grade II

*Former town hallThis was formerly the town hall dated 1885. It is built in brick with terra cotta dressings and a slate roof. It has a symmetrical nine-window, two-storey facade. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56064 |title=Images of England: Widnes Town Hall |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*The HolliesThis is a late 18th-century brown brick house with a slate roof in two storeys and three bays. It has a Doric fluted column doorcase with a toothed moulded frieze and a superior radial bar fanlight. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56049 |title=Images of England: The Hollies, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ] From 1867 to 1873 it was the home of Ludwig Mond. [cite book | last =Hardie | first =D. W. F. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes |edition= | publisher =Imperial Chemical Industries | date = 1950 | location = London| pages = Facing 108 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = ]
*Norland's HouseThis is a farm house dating from the early 18th century with alterations and additions since. The house is constructed in whitened brickwork with stone dressings and has two storeys and an attic with two bays with a two-storey two-bay wing added to the east. It has rusticated quoins, a stone plinth and floor bands. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56054 |title=Images of England: Norland's House, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*103, 105, 107 and 109 Highfield RoadThis is a terrace of four houses in pairs which are built in brick with slate roofs. They have two storeys and each pair of houses shares three bays. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56050 |title=Images of England: Nos. 103, 105, 107 & 109 Highfield Road, Widnes |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]

*Tower Building, now Catalyst Science Discovery CentreThis dates from around 1860. It is in rendered stone with a slate roof, mainly in four storeys with a two storey wing. It has a number of classical features. It was built for the chemical firm of Hutchinson & Co and later used by Gossage's. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56052 |title=Images of England: Gossage's Tower|accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ] More recently it has been converted into a museum with an additional fifth glass-surrounded storey and a glass external lift to the east.
*Sewer ventThis sewer ventilating shaft dates from around 1893 and is built in red brick with a blue brick plinth. It is approximately 30 feet {9 m) high and 4 feet (1.2 m) square internally. The vent has a projecting cap with a corbel support. It is the only remaining shaft of an early sewage system designed to take effluent from the chemical industry. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56053 |title=Images of England: Brick sewer vent |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*Widnes railway stationThis station dates from 1872. It is built with brown brick walls on a sandstone plinth and has a slate roof. It is in one storey and has eight bays. Originally called Farnworth station, it was then called Widnes North, and is now Widnes station. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56060 |title=Images of England: Widnes North railway station |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]
*Hough Green railway stationIts description is similar to Widnes station. [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=56051 |title=Images of England: Hough Green railway station |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=English Heritage ]

*Cemetery chapelsPair of chapels dated 1897. Rock-faced red sandstone with cross wings and a central tower. Slate roof with red crested tile ridge. Stone octagonal steeple to tower. Projecting plinth and ashlar corner buttresses. The main windows are in the decorated style; the tower and secondary windows are lancets.
*St Bede's churchRoman Catholic church dated 1847. Red sandstone with slate roof. Large west tower with angle buttresses, gargoyles and crenellations. The windows are paired lancets to the nave, curvilinear to the chancel and trefoil to the clerestory.
*St Marie's churchThis was a Roman Catholic church dated 1864 which became redundant in 2006. It is built in red brick with sandstone dressings and has blue brick banding beneath a slate roof. It has a linear single cell plan with nave and apse beneath a single roof structure and lean-to aisles. It was designed by E. W. Pugin and has been little altered. It was listed in 2006. [cite web |url=http://www2.halton.gov.uk/pdfs/environment/planning/widnes19 |title=St Marie's Roman Catholic Church |accessdate=2008-03-20 |publisher=Halton Borough Council ]

*Mersey Lock, Sankey Canal
Lock with restored gates. One of pair of locks where the Sankey Canal joins the River Mersey at Spike Island. Dated 1833 with later alterations and repairs. The locks control a difference in water level of 12 feet (3.6 m) between the canal and the river level.
*Bridewell, FarnworthFormer bridewell dated 1827. Red sandstone with slate roof. Plain and rectangular in shape.
*Wayside pulpit, St Mary's church, West BankOctagonal red sandstone ashlar pulpit set in the boundary wall of St.Mary's church approached up six steps. The pulpit has a religious text cut into its masonry which reads, "Go out into the highways and compel them to come in that my house may be filled".

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