Church of St Saviour
CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145911
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145911
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Saviour
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SAVIOUR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98454 68788
Details
WILDBOARCLOUGH C.P.
SJ 96 NE
3/10 Church of St. Saviour.
GV II
Church 1901-9 for 16th Earl of Derby. Coursed red sandstone rubble
with ashlar quoins, windows and doorways and Kerridge stone-slate
roofs. Squat 2-stage battlemented west tower, aisleless nave of 4
bays, chancel of 1 bay, gabled south porch, north vestry. Pointed
east window of 3 lancets under hoodmould on carved heads as corbels;
square-headed mullioned windows to nave, south side of chancel and to
vestry, with square labels and hollow-moulded mullions and surrounds;
hollow-moulded surrounds to doors. Two gabled 3-light dormers of oak
on south slope of nave roof. Foundation stone in south wall of
chancel: This stone was laid by Constance, Countess of Derby, Sept
14th 1901.
The simple interior is plastered above oak dado. Oak queenpost
trusses to nave; through purlins to chancel; rafters and
diagonal-boarded underdrawing, all of oak. Simple oak pews.
Bowl-shaped stone font on base with corner-shafts and stiff-leaf
capitals. The church was built, to commemorate the safe return of the
Earl of Derby's sons from the Boer War, using Estate masons and
carpenters.
Listing NGR: SJ9845468788
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 February 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58104
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/12997
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 February 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/255679
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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