Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163722
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1163722
- Date first listed:
- 17-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH STREET
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 MARY, CHURCH 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 90590 98139
Details
DROYLSDEN CHURCH STREET SJ 99 NW
4/61 Church of 17/11/66 St. Mary
- II Church. 1846-7. By E.H. Shellard for the Church Commissioners. Hammer-dressed stone with slate roof. Nave, clerestory, aisles and chancel. Gothic revival. 6-bay nave and aisles and 3-bay chancel with projecting plinth and continuous hoodmoulds. Each bay has a weathered buttress and paired lancet windows. Spherical triangle clerestory windows. Baptistry projects in bay 2 taking the form of a south porch. Priest's door to chancel. Coped gables with kneelers and a west bellcote. 3-lancet east window. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade on quatrefoil columns with stiff-leaf capitals. Hammer-beam roof springs from shaft on head stops. West gallery and organ loft which is elaborately painted. Timber and stone fittings include pews and font. Rev. R. Loxham, Illustrations of churches, vol.4, 1846-55,
Listing NGR: SJ9059098139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212717
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Loxham, Reverend R, Illustrations of Churches 1846-1855, ()
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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