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St Andrew's Church Eccles
Heritage Open Day: Grade II* Victorian Church open for people to look round with self guided leaflets or with guided tours St Andrew's was built in 1879 and designed by the architect Herbert Tijou. It contains over 50 examples of stone carving including angels, human faces, plants, animals and birds, all dating from the 1880s. Each carving is unique and different from the others. It also contains several beautiful stain glass windows installed between 1880 and 1920. The east windows are by Charles Kempe and one of them is in memory of Henry Boddington. Other windows are by Alfred Hemmings and the firm of Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster. They feature saints, Bible stories and Arthur Handley Clayton, a local man who was killed in World War I.