CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1138849
Date first listed: 14-Apr-1967
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH DRIVE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Nether Alderley
National Grid Reference: SJ8417076141
Summary
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History
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Details
SJ 87 NW NETHER ALDERLEY C.P. CHURCH DRIVE
4/115 Church of St Mary
14/4/1967
GV I
Church: C14 core, early C16 tower, early C17 additions, chancel of
1856 by Cuffley and Starkey, vestry dated 1860, general restoration
1877-8 by Austin and Paley. Ashlar buff and red sandstone. Kerridge
stone-slate roof, 4-bay nave and aisles, 3-bay chancel, massive
4-stage tower and south porch. Porch has diagonal buttresses,
crocketted pinnacles on the gable and a segmentally arched entrance.
Studded oak door with iron strap hinges in pointed arch behind. South
aisle has a 3-light window with trefoil cusped heads and the 2-storey
exterior of the Stanley pew (approached by a flight of stone steps to
the right) with rectangular windows of 5 round-headed lights.
Clerestorey with simple 2-light windows. Chancel in Decorated style,
the east window with reticulated tracery. North aisle has an inserted
Jacobean dormer probably to light 3-decker pulpit. Tower has diagonal
buttresses and bands at each stage. Pointed arched doorcase with
Victorian Decorated west window. Simple 2-light window in 3rd stage
and a pair of louvred 2-light Y-traceried bell openings above.
Gorgoyles support an embattled parapet.
Interior: 4-bay arcades on octagonal piers and with weakly pointed
arches. South aisle contains the Stanley flying pew. Jacobean
arcaded panelling to front with painted heraldry and a C18 Gothick
hood. Inside is further panelling containing some medieval carving
and a coved pyramidal Jacobean strapwork ceiling with a pendant. C18
musician's gallery has arms of Stanleys and other local landowners and
now contains an organ of 1875. In chancel 2 Victorian recumbant
effigies, the 1st Lord Stanley by Richard Westmacott jnr, the 2nd Lord
Stanley by George Nelson with cosmatiesque work and a brass panel
showing Lady Stanley and her 10 children. C14 font with plain
circular bowl with carved head bosses on a cluster of 4 columns is
very similar to Prestbury. Nave has a panelled barrel roof with
cambered moulded tiebeams and the aisles have moulded panelled lean-to
roofs (Pevsner and Hubbard).
The flying pew is unique in Cheshire, and the similarity of the tower
with that in Mobberley suggests it is also by Richard Platt.
Listing NGR: SJ8417076141
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 58281
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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