CHURCH OF ST MARK

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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.

Location

CHURCH OF ST MARK, REDHOUSE LANE
CHURCH OF ST MARK, STOCKPORT ROAD EAST

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Details

SJ 99 SW WERNETH STOCKPORT ROAD EAST (south-west side) Woodley 1/226 Church of - St. Mark

- II

Church. 1847-8.Shellard,for the Church Commissioners. Dressed stone, ashlar and slate roofs. 3-sided gallery plan with small chancel and a west tower flanked by entrance bays. 5-bay nave and aisles without clerestory. Projecting stone plinth, sill band, eaves band, coped parapet and coped gables with octagonal corner pinnacles. Each bay has paired lancets with colonnettes and a weathered gableted buttress (angled at corners). Door in bay 1 with sundial above. The 5-stage tower has set-back buttresses which are transformed at the fifth stage in octagonal corner columns to rise as ornate pinnacles Clock in third stage and 2-light belfry openings with clock and parapet above. Chancel with 3-light geometrical tracery east window and abutting lean-to vestry. 5-bay nave has quatrefoil columns with moulded capitals and bases, 3-sided gallery with blind arcading to parapet and an organ at the west, a double-chamfered chancel arch on corbelled colonnettes and a hammer-beam roof. Chancel with-arch braced roof truss. Carved timber reredos and pulpit.

Listing NGR: SJ9312291932

Selected Sources

National Grid Reference: SJ 93122 91932

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