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Church of St. Walburge, Preston

Preston, GB

Church of St. Walburge, Preston

St Walburge's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Preston, Lancashire, England, northwest of the city centre on Weston Street. The church was built in the mid-19th century to a design by the Gothic Revival architect Joseph Hansom, the designer of the hansom cab, and is famous as having the tallest

spire of any parish church in England. St Walburge's is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. In 2014 Michael Campbell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster, entrusted the church to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest as a shrine for Eucharistic Devotion.

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