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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mark Brown

Boat-shaped church and radar station among English heritage list newcomers

The interior of the church of St Nicholas in Fleetwood, Lancashire
The interior of the church of St Nicholas in Fleetwood, Lancashire. Photograph: James O Davies/Historic England

An intact second world war radar station and a 1960s church that resembles an upturned boat have joined some of England’s grandest buildings on the national heritage list.

Historic England singled out 16 “remarkable historic gems” that had been added to the list or had their entries updated in 2023. They include a 400-year-old structure regarded as England’s earliest known “modern-day car wash”, an unusually long railway footbridge, an iron age cave and a Manchester primary school that still has its flashy art nouveau tiling from more than a century ago.

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