CHURCH OF ST MARTIN
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1067893
Date first listed: 11-Nov-1966
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference: SJ 77238 92993
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SJ 79 SE SALE CHURCH LANE
(west side)
3/160 Church of Saint
11.11.66 Martin
G.V. II*
Church. 1714 for Joshua Allen with baptistery of 1874 by W.H.
Brakspear and tower of 1887 by George Truefitt for Sir Williams
Cunliffe Brooks. Ashlar and timber framing with graduated
slate and clay tile roofs. Wide nave with west gallery,
south porch, north baptistery and chancel with adjoining
tower and vestry to south, organ chamber to north. 4-bay
nave with porch (largely of 1887) in bay 1 in the same style
as the tower top. The other bays have 3-light chamfered
mullion windows with semi-circular heads in a C17 manner.
The bold square tower has a projecting plinth, 3 casement
windows at low level, datestone and a timber-framed clock
stage, most of the panels being open. It has a clock face,
gables on each side with moulded barge boards and is crowned
by an elaborate weather-vane. The east and west windows are
of 4 and 5 lights with intersecting tracery. The octagonal
baptistery with pyramidal roof is in a more conventional
post-Puginian Victorian Gothic style. There is a series of
headstones attached to the south wall dating from 1644.
Interior: chancel panelled with box pew ends. Double hammer
beam roof with convex curved wind braces, probably of 1714.
C16 octagonal front wrongly inscribed 1304, on C20 shaft.
C18 baluster-type font. Studded batten door from former
church (probably 1304). There has been a church on the site
since 850 AD and the site was a Saxon burial ground.
R. Richards, Old Cheshire Churches, 1973.
Listing NGR: SJ7723892993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 212919
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Richards, R, Old Cheshire Churches, (1973)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing