St Mary's Church, Woolton

St Mary's Church, Woolton
St Mary's Church, Woolton Location in Merseyside
Coordinates: 53°22′30″N 2°52′13″W / 53.3751°N 2.8704°W / 53.3751; -2.8704
OS grid reference	SJ 422 868
Location	Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside
Country	England
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	St Mary's, Woolton
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	19 June 1985
Architect(s)	R. W. Hughes
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1859
Completed	1860
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof
Administration
Diocese	Archdiocese of Liverpool

St Mary's Church is in Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the Pastoral Area of Woolton and Halewood, and the Archdiocese of Liverpool The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The church was built in 1859–60, and designed by R. W. Hughes, an architect from Preston. It was opened on 28 October 1860. The church was re-decorated in 1981–82, and the font was moved to the front of the church.

St Mary's is constructed in red sandstone and has a slate roof. It is orientated with the ritual east facing the northwest. The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a north porch but without aisles, large north and south transepts, a chancel with north and south chapels and sacristies. There is no tower. At the west end are diagonal buttresses, an entrance, and pointed windows containing Geometric tracery. The windows along the sides of the nave have two lights. In the south transept is a four-light window, and the north transept contains two two-light windows with a rose window above. In the chapel is a five-light window flanked by diagonal buttresses. The chapels are gabled with two-light windows. The south sacristy has one and two lights, with a rose window in the gable.