Church of the Holy Name, Manchester
Church of the Holy Name, Manchester
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus on Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, is a Grade I Jesuit church by Joseph Aloysius Hansom and his son Joseph Stanislaus, built 1869–71 on a cathedral scale.
- Location
- Manchester, Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- County
- Greater Manchester
- City / town
- Manchester
- Address
- Oxford Road, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M13 9PG
- Postcode
- M13 9PG
- Built
- 1869–71; tower 1928
- Consecrated
- 1923
- Architect
- J. A. Hansom; Adrian Gilbert Scott (tower)
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Diocese
- Salford
- Grade
- I
- Style
- French Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Coursed sandstone rubble, steep slate roofs, terracotta vaults
- Opening hours
- Monday to Saturday: 11am - 1pm. Saturday: 10am - 12 noon and 6pm - 8pm
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
- Website
- http://www.holyname.info/
Overview
The Bishop of Salford invited the Jesuits to serve Manchester’s growing Catholic population. Hansom designed a thirteenth-century French Gothic church 186 feet long, with flying buttresses, a polygonal apse and ambulatory, and rib vaults of banded terracotta. Pevsner called the design of the highest quality. The incomplete church opened in 1871; it was consecrated in 1923. Adrian Gilbert Scott’s west tower of 1928, in memory of Fr Bernard Vaughan SJ, replaced Hansom’s unbuilt lantern. Listed Grade II* in 1963 and raised to Grade I in 1989, it remains a Jesuit church in the Diocese of Salford on the university corridor.