All Saints, Wigan (2025)

All Saints, Bishopgate, Wigan

History of All Saints, Wigan

In 2025, CT sent this note:

I read your articles on the above company after spotting this Bishop Chair in All Saints Parish Church, Wigan. The only information available was that it was made by a ‘Mr Rattee’ of Cambridge around the time of the churches restoration in 1849 for the Bishop of Liverpool. Reading further into your article which I found [fascinating] was that the company also crafted Pulpits and Reredos Screens. I have attached photos of these in All Saints and wondered if they could conceivably be by Rattee and Ketch as the date would certainly fit? As you can see they are quite ornately carved and richly decorated more in a Catholic tradition, although All Saints is defined as ‘High’ Anglican. Much of the churches restoration was paid for by local benefactors including the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres whose descendants still take a great deal of interest in the church and their now council owned former home and Estate of Haigh Hall.