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{{Use British English|date=September 2013}}{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2013}}{{Infobox church | name = St Stephen's Church, Whelley| fullname = | image =St Stephen's church, Whelley.jpg | imagesize = 240px| imagealt = | landscape = | caption = | pushpin map = Greater Manchester| pushpin map alt = | pushpin mapsize = 250 | pushpin label position = | map caption = Location in Greater Manchester| location = Balcarres Avenue, Whelley, Wigan, Greater Manchester| country = England | coordinates = {{coord|53.5554|-2.6161|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} | osgraw = SD 593,067| denomination = Anglican | churchmanship = | membership = | attendance = | website = St Stephen, Whelley | former name = | bull date = | founded date = | founder = | dedication = | dedicated date = | consecrated date = | cult = | relics = | events = | past bishop = | people = | status = Parish church| functional status = Active| heritage designation = Grade II| designated date = 11 July 1983| architect = Henry Paley| architectural type = Church| style = Gothic Revival| groundbreaking = 1928| completed date = 1938| construction cost = | closed date = | demolished date = | capacity = | length = | width = | width nave = | height = | diameter = | other dimensions = | floor count = | floor area = | spire quantity = | spire height = | materials = Stone| parish = St Stephen, Wigan| deanery = Wigan| archdeaconry = Warrington| diocese = Liverpool| province = York| rector = | vicar = Rev Bill Matthews| curate = | priest = | asstpriest = | minister = | assistant = | honpriest = | deacon = | seniorpastor = | pastor = | abbot = | chaplain = | reader = | organistdom = | director = | organist = | organscholar = | chapterclerk = | laychapter = | warden = | flowerguild = | musicgroup = | parishadmin = | serversguild = | logo = | logosize = }}St Stephen's Church is in Balcarres Avenue, Whelley, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Wigan and West Lancashire, and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is united with that of St John, New Springs.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]HistoryThe first phase of the church was built between 1928 and 1930, the foundation stone being laid in November 1928, and the church being consecrated on 9 April 1930. It was designed by the Lancaster architect Henry Paley of Austin and Paley, and the church was built on land given by Lord Crawford. The first phase consisted of the east end of the church, and the first two bays of the nave and the aisles: this cost £9,863 (equivalent to £{{formatnum:{{Inflation|UK|9863|1930|{{Inflation-year|UK}}|r=-4}}}} in {{Inflation-year|UK}}).{{Inflation-fn|UK|df=y}}{{sfn|Brandwood|Austin|Hughes|Price|2012|p=252}} The church was completed in 1937–38, and a choir vestry was added, the cost of these additions being £5,253.{{sfn|Brandwood|Austin|Hughes|Price|2012|p=255}} ArchitectureSt Stephen's is constructed in red and brown sandstone with green slate roofs, and is in Free Perpendicular style. Its plan consists of a nave with a clerestory and a south porch, north and south aisles, a chancel with a canted east end, a south vestry, and a single gabled bellcote standing at right angles to the south side of the chancel. At the west end are broad buttresses, with a canted baptistry between them.[2]{{sfn|Brandwood|Austin|Hughes|Price|2012|pp=183–184}}{{sfn|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=664}} The west window has four lights, the east window has five lights, and the clerestory windows have three lights.[2] Pollard and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series comment that it is "an odd time" for the architect to be continuing to use the style of the practice during the 1880s.{{sfn|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=664}}{{efn|During the 1880s the partners in the Lancaster practice were Henry Paley's father, E. G. Paley, and Hubert Austin.{{sfn|Brandwood|Austin|Hughes|Price|2012|p=2}}}} The two-manual pipe organ, the third to be installed in the church, was made in 1964 by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd.[3] In 2011 the pipe organ was replaced with an electronic imitation produced by Johannus of Holland. See also{{portal|Greater Manchester}}- List of churches in Greater Manchester
- Listed buildings in Wigan
- List of ecclesiastical works by Austin and Paley (1916–44)
ReferencesNotes{{notelist}}Citations1. ^{{citation |url= http://www.achurchnearyou.com/wigan-st-stephen-whelley/ |title= St Stephen (Whelley), Wigan |accessdate=24 August 2012 |publisher=Church of England }}
2. ^1 2 {{NHLE |num= 1384470|desc= Church of St Stephen, Wigan|accessdate= 24 August 2012|mode=cs2|postscript=none}}
3. ^{{Citation | url = http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10977| title = Lancashire (Manchester, Greater), Whelley, St. Stephen, Plantation Gates (N10977)| accessdate = 24 August 2012| publisher = British Institute of Organ Studies}}
Sources{{refbegin}}- {{Citation | last = Brandwood| first = Geoff| author-link = | last2 = Austin| first2 = Tim| last3 = Hughes| first3 = John| last4 = Price| first4 = James| publication-date = | date = | year = 2012| title = The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin| edition = | volume = | series = | publication-place = Swindon| place = | publisher = English Heritage| pages = | page = | format = | id = | isbn = 978-1-84802-049-8| doi = | oclc = | url = | accessdate =}}
- {{Citation | last =Pollard| first =Richard | authorlink = | last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link =Nikolaus Pevsner| series= The Buildings of England|title =Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West |edition= | publisher =Yale University Press | year =2006 | location =New Haven and London | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0-300-10910-5 }}
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