Former Church of All Souls

FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, EVERY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200825
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Former Church of All Souls
Statutory Address:
FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, EVERY STREET
The Former Church of All Souls in Ancoats. A former church built 1839-40, by William Hayley, in the Romanesque style.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1200825
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1984
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:
Former Church of All Souls
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, EVERY STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER CHURCH OF ALL SOULS, EVERY STREET

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 85784 98202

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8598 EVERY STREET, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/17/533 (South East side) 15/10/84 Former Church of All Souls (Formerly Listed as: EVERY STREET, Ancoats (South East side) Church of All Souls)

II

Former church. 1839-40, by William Haley. Brown brick with some stone dressings, slate roof. Romanesque style. Rectangular plan on south-west/north-east axis. The 3-bay gabled east and west ends have square pilasters to the corners and flanking the projected centre bay, all with stone false machicolation and pyramidal roofs and those flanking the centre of the west front including tall open-arcaded belfry stages. The centre of the west front has a stone central doorway, with chevron and lobed nook-shafts on scalloped capitals, a band of elaborate triple-interlaced blind arcading, an 8-light wheel window, a stone band on a corbel table, and a louvred lancet roof ventilator in the gable apex; the outer bays have single tall lancet windows with side shafts and nailhead arches, brick hoodmoulds with run-out ends, and bands like the centre. The east end centre bay has stepped triple round-headed lancets, a stone band like that at the front, and an oculus in the gable apex with corbel table; and the outer bays have round-headed doorways with zig-zag central order. The 4-bay side walls have pilaster strips and simple corbel tables (like the ends), and 2 tall round-headed lancets to each bay. Interior (as reported 15.10.84): 5 bays, with quatrefoil cast-iron columns supporting a gallery fronted with interlaced blind arcading; organ loft at west end, over enclosed west bay. Later raising of choir to sanctuary with round-headed chancel arch outlined by roll-mouldings; stone reredos with 6-bay arcade, below stone-shafted lancets with lobed over-arches on scallop capitals; open-arcaded roof trusses; original box-pews and benches in gallery; late C19 stone pulpit. History: built for Dr Samuel Warren, who had been expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist Connection; assigned a district in 1842.

Listing NGR: SJ8578498202

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Legacy System number:
388115
Legacy System:
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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.

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