Church of St Joseph
CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, TATTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067167
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, TATTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067167
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, TATTON STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, TATTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89609 90315
Details
TATTON STREET
SJ 89 SE, SP/39 0/39
CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH
II
Roman Catholic church. 1861-2 by Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield, architect,
Messrs J Robinson of Hyde, Cheshire, builders. Hammer-dressed Yorkshire grit-stone,
Hollington stone dressings, slate roofs. Basilican plan: nave and clerestory, three
sided apse, aisles and south side base of tower, 2-storey sacristy. Nave and apse
under one roof pitch. Simplified High Victorian gothic, early decorated details
"of an English type" (Builder). Liturgical west front has two lancets flanking ogee
headed door under pitched gable with crockets. Two 3-light geometric tracery
windows above, cinquefoil roundel in gable. 3-light tracery clerestory and apse
windows, segmental tracery aisle liturgical east windows. INTERIOR: 5-bay nave
arcades, Derbyshire marble bases, Yorkshire stone shafts and capitals, simplified
chamfered arches. Arched braced panelled nave roof. Chancel arch reduced to
doubled arched braces with quatrefoil panelling, set on stone corbel. Exposed
raftered aisle roofs. Original built-in confessionals extended through aisle walls
under traceried windows. West gallery. High altar and chancel furniture as
memorial to 1914-1918 war dead. East window, stained, 1882. Design heavily
influenced by Hadfield's former partner George Goldie and by the mid-century re-
action against A W N Pugin's planning and liturgical principles: "arrange(d).. so
that the greatest possible space shall be given up for the use of the congregat-
ion with the facility for seeing and hearing and abundance of light": Builder,
March 30, 1862, p 216. Centenary Record, Diocese of Shrewsbury, 1851-1951, (1951,
pp 91-92.
Listing NGR: SJ8960990315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210892
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Centenary Record Diocese of Shrewsbury 1851-1951, (1951), 91-92
The Builder in 30 March, (1862), 216
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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