St Mary's Church, Hale

St Mary's Church, Hale
St Mary's Church, Hale, from the southeast
St Mary's Church, Hale Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°19′57″N 2°47′43″W / 53.3325°N 2.7952°W / 53.3325; -2.7952
OS grid reference	SJ 471 820
Location	Church End, Hale, Halton, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Mary, Hale
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	28 January 1971
Architect(s)	Buxeby and Evans (1979–80)
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic, Neoclassical
Completed	1980
Specifications
Materials	Sandstone, slate roof
Administration
Parish	Hale St Mary
Deanery	Widnes
Archdeaconry	Warrington
Diocese	Liverpool
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Janice Margaret Collier

St Mary's Church is in Church End in the village of Hale, Halton, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Widnes, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the diocese of Liverpool.

The tower dates from the 14th century and the rest of the church from 1758–59, replacing an earlier church on the site. Restorations were carried out in 1874, when a northwest vestry was added, and 1903. In October 1977 the church was set on fire by vandals, leaving only the walls and the tower still standing. As a result of the fire there is nothing remaining of the restorations other than the vestry walls. Following the fire, the foundations of a narrower, timber-framed church were discovered. The roof and interior of the church were replaced by the architects Buxeby and Evans in 1979–80.

St Mary's is built in red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Its plan is a rectangle in five bays with a west tower, a northwest vestry, a northeast gabled projecting chapel, and a south porch. The tower is square with corner buttresses and a crenellated parapet. It has a west door with a window above it. At the bell stage are two-light louvred belfry windows on all sides. The windows on each side of the body of the church are round-headed. The east window is Venetian in style, glazed in large squares, with a cherub carved in the keystone.