Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: ENGLAND, ST HELENS (LANCASHIRE), NORTH ROAD, LOWE HOUSE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)

Name: POWELL, CHARLES B.
Building: ENGLAND, ST HELENS (LANCASHIRE), NORTH ROAD, LOWE HOUSE, CHURCH OF ST MARY (RC)
Date: 1924-1930
Nature: Large new church with W tower and dome over crossing; 'an ill-advised mixture of Byzantine and Gothic' (Pevsner). For Fr. Reginald Riley, SJ.
Refs: Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire (1969), 51,384;  exterior illus. in Holy Cross & St Mary's, Lower House, http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000154618/ (last visited Mar 2009).