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St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Whickham
Quite near Dockendale Hall, a farm building was converted into a Catholic Church in 1948. The present Catholic Church was completed in 1970. It was designed by Rossi McCann and Partner, will seat a congregation of 350. It was designed to suit the new liturgical requirements. The sacristies and waiting room form the link block to the new presbytery. The scheme is designed to a domestic scale to domestic standards in order to meet a tight budget limit of £52,000!