Culture Warrington

1 culture

1.1 museums
1.2 events
1.3 music
1.4 heritage

culture

warrington museum & art gallery, opened 1858

in march 2017 warrington borough council made unsuccessful bid become uk city of culture in 2021..

warrington has concert hall (the parr hall), arts centre (the pyramid), 3 museums, , various public libraries throughout borough. warrington central library first rate-supported library in uk.

there cinema @ westbrook, , being constructed part of town centre redevelopment. there several parks (see parks in warrington) , designated nature reserves @ woolston eyes, risley moss, rixton claypits , paddington meadows.

museums

warrington museum & art gallery situated in warrington s cultural quarter on first floor of building shares warrington central library. town home museum of policing in cheshire, located in part of working police station , warrington museum of freemasonry.

a heritage centre village of lymm given planning permission in february 2016.

events

a number of festivals, carnivals , walking days held annually in warrington area. warrington walking day – sunday school festival – held on closest friday last day of june, , town centre closed traffic churches walk through streets.

other festivals, besides many walking days, include:

appleton thorn bawming of thorn
birchwood carnival , safari day
croft carnival
culcheth community day
glazebury gala
howley carnival
lymm may queen
lymm dickensian festival
lymm rushbearing
penketh carnival
stockton heath arts festival
thelwall rose queen
warrington music festival
winwick carnival
westy carnival

music

regular series of free classical music concerts take place in holy trinity church, organised wacidom. charity responsible biennial warrington competition young musicians, held @ arley hall. regular classical recitals take place @ walton hall , st wilfrid s church, grappenhall. warrington has many musical groups, including warrington male voice choir, gemini musical theatre company (formerly warrington light opera), warrington youth orchestra, north cheshire wind orchestra, centenary theatre company , award-winning barbershop chorus, cheshire chord company.

a number of rock , pop musicians associated warrington. madchester pioneers stone roses closely associated town, particularly native lead singer ian brown. other artists include spike dawbarn 90 s music act band 911, kerry katona of atomic kitten, ben byrne , james stelfox starsailor , tim bowness of no-man. band viola beach (whose single swings & waterslides posthumously entered uk singles chart @ number 11) formed in warrington.

the hit man , tv show featuring producer pete waterman (of stock aitken waterman) , michaela strachan debuted , regularly returned mr smiths nightclub in warrington.

heritage

the historic core of warrington contains many significant heritage assets such warrington town hall, st elphin s church , warrington museum situated conservation areas.

in 2015 study royal society of arts , warrington scored lowest of authorities in uk in terms of heritage assets, , town described in national press least cultural place in britain .