Church of St Edmund
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197826
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197826
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
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 EDMUND, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83300 95174
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89NW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Whalley Range 698-1/4/825 Church of St Edmund 13/07/87
II
Church. 1881, by H.R.Price. Coursed squared sandstone rubble, slate roof. Geometrical style. Seven-bay nave with north and south aisles, polygonal apse, unfinished north-east tower. Nave has clerestory of paired 2-centred arched single-light windows with trefoil tracery, large 6-light west window with multifoil tracery; apse has gabled traceried lancets with shafts. North aisle has gabled porch at west end with moulded 2-centred arch including shafts. Square tower built to first 2 stages only, with angle-buttresses, foundation stone dated July 1881, and east doorway moulded in 4 orders, under gablet. Interior: lofty arcades of polished granite coulmns and moulded 2-centred arches; chancel arch with corbelled shafts; elaborate open-truss timber roof to nave, wooden barrel-vault roof to chancel; stone wall to chancel with inbuilt pulpit and lectern (sounding board to pulpit); residual gables over lancet windows of apse, with intervening shafts; baptistery at west end of south aisle enclosed by glazed Gothic screen, containing marble font; stained glass in apse by Shrigley and Hunt c.1912. No longer in use for worship.
Listing NGR: SJ8330095174
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387876
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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