Category:St Antony's Church, Trafford Park
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English: St Antony of Padua Church was built to serve the residents of the newly built Westinghouse Village in 1904. The church has a corrugated iron structure which it maintains although it was reclad in 1994.
St Antony's is a typical example of a number of “tin tabernacles” that were built at the end of the late 1890s/early 1900s. Three such “tin tabernacles” were built in Trafford Park to serve the workers and the families living in the village.
The church originally had a timber frame clad with treated corrugated steel. This remained in its original form until the Second World War. In the 1940s, after a bomb dropped on the adjoining warehouse, an additional metal structure was built on the outside of the church to support the frame as it was understood that the blast from the bomb was in danger of making the church lean.
Much of the Trafford Park Village was demolished by the early 1980s leaving the church with no resident population. Its parish of St Antony of Padua became an industrial chaplaincy. The church closed in 2009 but whilst the church is no longer fully operational, it is used for private services and Mass services linked to the Spirituality Project and is maintained by the Centre for Church and Industry.Media in category "St Antony's Church, Trafford Park"
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Church of St Antony, Trafford Village - geograph.org.uk - 4476812.jpg 1,280 × 853; 452 KB
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St Antony's Church, The Tin Tabernacle - geograph.org.uk - 4170043.jpg 640 × 480; 334 KB
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