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St Winefride's Church
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53°16′31″N 3°13′22″W / 53.275301°N 3.222896°W / 53.275301; -3.222896
Location	Holywell, Flintshire
Country	Wales
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Founder(s)	Society of Jesus
Dedication	St Winefride
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II listed
Designated	19 August 1991
Architect(s)	Joseph John Scoles
Groundbreaking	1832
Administration
Province	Cardiff
Diocese	Wrexham
Deanery	Flint

St Winefride's Church (also known as St Winifred's Church or St Winefred's Church) is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Holywell, Flintshire. It was founded by the Society of Jesus and was until recently the first church in the United Kingdom to be administered by the Vocationist Fathers now since departed as the parish returns into diocesan hands. It is Grade II listed building. It was the first church the Jesuits built in Wales.

History

It was founded by the Jesuits in 1832. They went on to establish St Beuno's College in 1848. From the college they also founded other churches such as Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Rhyl and Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls Church in Llandrindod Wells.

By the 1930s they handed over the church to the Diocese of Wrexham. On 19 August 1991, the church was designated a Grade II listed building.

On 6 April 2008, the Bishop of Wrexham, Edwin Regan, invited the Vocationist Fathers to the church who until 24th April 2023 administered the parish. it has now reverted back to a diocesan priest administration as before.

Shrines

Holywell

Within the parish is one of the Seven Wonders of Wales, St Winefride's Well, a shrine and site of pilgrimage. The shrine and relics are in the care of the church.

Pantasaph

Close to the parish, near Holywell, is the National Shrine of St Pio and St David's Church in the village of Pantasaph. It was founded in 1852, by the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

Parish

The Vocationist Fathers also serve the Sacred Heart church in Hawarden. The church was founded by the Diocese of Wrexham and was built in the late twentieth century. It has one Sunday Mass at 10:30am.

St Winefride's has three Sunday Masses, one at 6:00pm on Saturday evening in the church, and at 9:30am and 5pm on Sunday in the chapel of St Winefride's Well. There are weekday Masses at 9:30am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and at 7:00pm on Tuesday and Thursday.

Stained glass

References

1. ^ British listed buildings retrieved 20 October 2013
2. United Kingdom from Vocationist Fathers retrieved 13 March 2014
3. Pantasaph.co.uk Archived 8 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 13 March 2014
4. Parish from SacredHeartCatholicChurchHawarden.org retrieved 10 September 2021

External links

• Media related to St Winefride's Church, Holywell at Wikimedia Commons
• St Winefride's Church Main Website
• Vocationist Fathers UK site
• St Winefride's Well site
• Pantasaph Franciscan Friary site Archived 8 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Artwork at St Winefride's Church, Holywell

v t e Diocese of Wrexham
Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham
Bishops of Wrexham I: James Hannigan II: Edwin Regan III: Peter Brignall
Churches Wrexham Cathedral – Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows Our Lady Star of the Sea and St Winefride, Amlwch Our Lady and St James, Bangor St Tudwal, Barmouth St Joseph, Colwyn Bay Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, Dolgellau St Mary, Holyhead St Winefride, Holywell St David, Pantasaph Our Lady of the Assumption, Rhyl
Patronal Feast of the Diocese Saint David (1 March)
Schools St Richard Gwyn High School, Flint Christ the Word School, Rhyl St Joseph's High School, Wrexham
Deaneries Caernarfon Deanery Colwyn Bay Deanery Dolgellau Deanery Flint Deanery Rhyl Deanery Wrexham Deanery
See also St Winefride's Well St Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre
Catholicism portal Wales portal

v t e Society of Jesus in Great Britain
Schools	Primary schools St Mary's Hall St Joseph's Primary School Barlborough Hall School St Aloysius' College Junior School St John's Beaumont School Donhead Preparatory School Secondary schools Stonyhurst College Mount St Mary's College St Aloysius' College Wimbledon College St Ignatius College, Enfield Former St Peter's Catholic School, Bournemouth The Campion School St Michael's College, Leeds St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool Beaumont College, Old Windsor Preston Catholic College Hodder Place, Stonyhurst St Aidan's Catholic School, Sunderland
Institutes	Campion Hall, Oxford Laudato Si' Research Institute London Jesuit Centre Former Campion House College, Osterley Harlaxton Manor Heythrop Park Heythrop College, University of London Parkstead House Woodhall House, Juniper Green
Churches	Parishes Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street St Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill St Anselm's Church, Southall St Dominic's Church, Newcastle St Wilfrid's Church, Preston St Aloysius Church, Glasgow Sacred Heart Church, Edinburgh St Peter's Church, Stonyhurst Chaplaincies Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy Former Sacred Heart Church, Accrington Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool Corpus Christi Church, Boscombe Sacred Heart Church, Bournemouth St Mary on the Quay, Bristol Corpus Christi Church, Brixton St Edmund's Church, Bury St Edmunds Annunciation Church, Chesterfield Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton St Mary Church, Clayton-le-Moors St Michael and St John Church, Clitheroe St David's Church, Dalkeith St Mary's Church, Great Yarmouth St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford St Winefride's Church, Holywell Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Leeds Sacred Heart Church, Leeds St Joseph's Church, Leigh Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls Church, Llandrindod Wells Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Lowestoft St Aloysius Gonzaga Church, Oxford Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot St Ignatius Church, Preston St Walburge's Church, Preston St Joseph and St Francis Xavier Church, Richmond Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Rhyl St Joseph Church, Roehampton Holy Cross Church, St Helens Church of St Mary, Lowe House, St Helens St Stephen's Church, Skipton St Ignatius Church, South Ossett Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkhill St Austin's Church, Wakefield St John's Church, Wigan Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon Christ the King Church, Wimbledon Park St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon St George's Church, Worcester
Spirituality	Residential St Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre Non-residential London Jesuit Centre Edinburgh Jesuit Centre Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Glasgow Former Corby Hall Loyola Hall
See also	Pray As You Go Thinking Faith The Way Jesuit Missions UK Jesuit Refugee Service List of Jesuit sites in Britain
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• Grade II listed churches in Flintshire
• Grade II listed Roman Catholic churches in Wales
• Roman Catholic churches completed in 1912
• 1832 establishments in Wales
• Neoclassical architecture in Wales
• 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
• Vocationist churches in the United Kingdom
• Neoclassical church buildings in the United Kingdom