FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN)

FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN), NEWTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162448
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN)
Statutory Address:: FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN), NEWTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1162448
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN)
Statutory Address 1:: FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN), NEWTON STREET

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:: FLOWERY FIELD CHURCH (FREE CHRISTIAN), NEWTON STREET

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

District:: Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 94510 95506

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/01/2014

SJ 99 NW 3/30

HYDE, NEWTON STREET (west side), Flowery Field Church (Free Christian)

(Formerly listed as Flowery Field United Reformed Church)

6.2.1986

II

Church. 1878. Thomas Worthington. Snecked stone with slate roof. Wide nave with east gallery, galleried transepts, south-east tower and polygonal chancel. 3-bay nave, each bay having a projecting plinth, weathered buttress, continuous sill band and 3-light flat-headed mullion and transom window with arched lights and hoodmould. Coped gables with kneelers and cross finials. The 3-stage tower has angled buttresses, a corner stair turret, 2-light windows to west and to transepts with Perpendicular tracery. Conically-roofed stair towers flank the transepts. Interior: triple chancel arch the piers having attached columns. Cambered tie-beam roof trusses with enriched braces and arcading and a panelled timber ceiling. Other timberwork includes organ, galleries, pulpit, screens and pews. Stained glass.

Built by local mill owner Thomas Ashton for use by his employees for worship regardless of creed. The tower carries the inscription: "To the Worship of God by a Congregation bound by no Creeds or Confessions of Faith, who under the guidance of Ministers equally free to follow Truth, humbly strive to love God and to serve their Fellowmen. This Church is dedicated by Thomas Ashton of Hyde and Elizabeth, his wife. A.D. MDCCCLXXVIII. "

Listing NGR: SJ9451095506

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Legacy System number:: 212486
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.