Our Lady of Dolours Church, Salford

Can you live stream a funeral at Our Lady of Dolours Church, Salford?

Yes, we have live streamed more funeral services from this church than any other. We regularly provide funeral webcasts from the primary west-end which gives our wide cameras an excellent view that frames the sanctuary and ambo.

Our Lady of Dolours (Servite Priory), Kersal, Salford is a Roman Catholic parish founded by the Servites in 1923 and shaped by a distinctive combination of parish life and religious-order spirituality centred on Our Lady of Sorrows. The early community gathered first in temporary spaces, before a prefabricated “temporary church” was opened in June 1924 alongside the newly acquired priory house; later, a chapel-of-ease dedicated to St Philip Benizi (opened 1927) extended the parish’s reach into Lower Kersal.

The present church dates from 1964, when a new 450-seat building by Arthur Farebrother & Partners was erected next to the Priory at a recorded cost of £47,000. It adopts a simplified basilican Romanesque style: a gabled west front with a triple-arched porch/loggia and a relief statue of Our Lady, buff-brick elevations, and a continuous pitched roof. Internally the architectural quality comes from proportion and materials—bare-faced brick walls; wide segmental brick arcades on green-stone columns with cushion capitals; and a clear axial progression from nave to sanctuary with a shallow canted apse.

The key modern intervention was the sanctuary reordering of 1988–90, which extended the dais and brought the altar forward, with new furnishings supplied by Alberti, Lupton & Co.; the church was consecrated in September 1990 by Bishop Patrick Kelly. Although not listed and outside a conservation area, ongoing care for the exposed porch, brick fabric and tiled roof remains important.

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