Preparing for the Future

The Parish of St Mary, Penwortham has a fine Grade 2* listed church on a site which has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.  Although the nave and vestry areas date only from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, almost the whole of the chancel and tower are early mediaeval. 

By the middle of 2006,

• The church’s Victorian heating system, which had been malfunctioning for several years, was on the verge of complete failure

• Major structural defects had been discovered in the floor of the nave. 

'Preparing for the Future' is the name given to the St Mary's Development Project, our response to our much loved church's current crisis.

In the following pages, you can find out about the project, what we want to achieve and the help that we need.

Please do read on!