CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW

CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067438
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1067438
Date first listed:: 19-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, DENSHAW, HUDDERSFIELD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Saddleworth
National Grid Reference:: SD 97582 10570

Details

SADDLEWORTH HUDDERSFIELD ROAD SD 91 SE (north side) Denshaw 1/162 Christ Church, 19/6/67 Denshaw - II Church. "1863" above door. Built for Henry Gartside. Rock- faced stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory, aisles, west tower and chancel. Aisles have projecting plinth and flat buttresses. Each of 2 bays has a triple cusped lancet window and porch in bay one has coped gable with kneelers. Quatrefoil clerestory windows. 5-light east window with geometrical tracery. Gabled organ chamber and chapel to either side of chancel. Steeply pitched roof with coped gables and kneelers. The 3-stage tower has 3-light first stage window a clock face in the second, 2-light belfry openings, castellated papapet with stepped merlons and pierced trefoils and corner pinnacles. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade arches on circular columns with moulded capitals. Arch-braced roof trusses. Gartside chapel has stone altar in cusped recess. Stained glass. Octagonal stone pulpit.

Listing NGR: SD9758210570

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Legacy System number:: 212177
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.