Christ Church

Christ Church, Thorley Lane, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7HA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120867
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: Christ Church
Statutory Address:: Christ Church, Thorley Lane, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7HA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120867
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: Christ Church
Statutory Address 1:: Christ Church, Thorley Lane, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7HA

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, Thorley Lane, Timperley, Altrincham, WA15 7HA

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

District:: Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 79082 88190

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 June 2023 to amend the address and to reformat the text to current standards.

SJ 78 NE 7/36

ALTRINCHAM TIMPERLEY THORLEY LANE (east side) Christ Church

(Formerly listed as Christ Church, THORLEY LANE, ALTRINCHAM )

26/04/85

II Church. Nave and tower 1849 by J. Bayley, transept and chancel 1864-5 by John Lowe, vestry extension 1887 by Charles Heathcote. Rock faced sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Neo-Norman. Wide nave, west tower, porch, transepts, chancel, organ chamber and vestry.

Five bay nave, two bay transepts, two bay chancel. Stone plinth, continuous hoodmould and coped parapet with blind arcading. Each bay has flat buttresses (clasping at corners) and a semi-circular arched window with colonnettes. Three stage tower with spire has clasping buttresses, semi-circular headed openings to each stage, the belfry ones being coupled. Each stage is diminished and the belfry has nook shafts and dentilled eaves. Rose windows to transepts, five-light east window and a canted bay window added to the organ chamber by Arthur W. Hennings in 1923 with chequer-patterned gable.

Interior: west gallery, queen-post roof trusses, double chamfered semi-circular chancel and transept arches, chequered terracotta wall tiles throughout (1887), carved heraldic frieze at tie-beam level. Box pews, altar rail altar table and reredos by Edgar Wood with inlaid ebony, ivory walnut etc. Pulpit by John Lowe. North transept door and vestibule by John N. Cocker. East window by Heaton Butler and Bayne 1882. Transept windows stained glass by Charles Heathcote 1887. Pre-Raphaelite style nave windows by Heaton Butler and George Bayne (Faith) and George Wraffe (Gentleness, Courage, Justice and Diligence). Chancel window by Edgar Wood.

Listing NGR: SJ7908288190

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Legacy System number:: 212792
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.