Upperby, Carlisle

St Margaret Mary's Club

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The parish club of St Margaret Mary's on Scalegate Road, now the parish community centre, with a licensed bar open to the public Thursday to Sunday and a function room for hire.

Today: See opening hours
Address: Parish Community Centre, Scalegate Road, Upperby, Carlisle CA2 4JX

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History

Opened Licensed 3 December 1956

Licensed: 3 December 1956, as the parish hall
Concert room: 1 May 1963
Lounge: 27 March 1972
Church: 1961, by James Brignell Dand

At St Margaret Mary's in Upperby the hall came before the church. The parish hall on Scalegate Road was licensed on 3 December 1956, and the church followed in 1961, built to designs by James Brignell Dand of Carlisle: a modern take on an early Christian basilica in red brick, with an apse, clerestory windows, a round stained-glass window over the entrance and a brick campanile set off to one side.

The club grew in two steps, a concert room added on 1 May 1963 and a lounge opened on 27 March 1972, both inside the sixteen years after the first licence. It has since put itself on a modern footing without losing the parish. St Margaret Mary's Parish Community Centre Ltd was incorporated on 22 May 2007 as a company limited by guarantee, and is still filing; its gaming machines have been registered with the council since February 2009. It opens to the public from Thursday to Sunday, late into the night, and the function room is let for private bookings earlier in the week.

It is one of the city's two surviving Catholic clubs, with Harraby Catholic Club. The other, the Knights of St Columba on Warwick Square in the city centre, sold its premises in 2005.

Photographs

Single-storey red brick club building with a pitched gable end bearing a small sign reading St Margaret Mary's Social Club, a lower wing with a grey metal roof, and a low dark brick wall with steps along the pavement — St Margaret Mary's Social Club, Scalegate Road, Upperby, in December 2013 Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0

Opening hours

Mon	Closed
Tue	Closed
Wed	Closed
Thu	19:00–01:00
Fri	19:00–01:00
Sat	19:00–01:00
Sun	12:00–01:00

From the club's own Facebook page (a post of March 2023, the latest it has published). Monday to Wednesday it is closed to the public but open for booked private functions, closing at 8pm. Worth checking before a special trip.

Hours checked September 2026.

Hours are kept by hand and change without warning. Ring ahead if it matters.