Church Of Saint Martin

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 81 SE ROCHDALE VICARAGE ROAD NORTH

6/118 Church of Saint Martin

G.V. II

Church. 1860-2. Ernest Bates. Coursed rubble with slate roof. Nave with clerestory, aisles, transepts and a north- west tower and entrance. Chancel with vestry to either side. In a late C13 style. 4-bay clerestory and aisle with 3-light openings to clerestory and 2-light to aisle which has weathered buttresses and corbelled eaves. The 3-storey tower has an arched doorway, angle buttresses, 2 2-light enriched openings to the belfry and quatrefoil banding. The spire has broach statues with corbelled canopies and a gabled lucarne to each cardinal face. The transepts have angled buttresses, 4-light windows and coped gables. The 2- bay chancel has 2-light windows and a 5-light east window.

Interior: alternating circular and octagonal nave arcade columns with double chamfered arches. The nave roof has arched braced king-post trusses. The chancel arch has clustered columns and the chancel a barrel-vault ceiling.

Listing NGR: SD8847210225

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 Ioe Records Taken By Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project