Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHAPEL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201707
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHAPEL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201707
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHAPEL ROAD
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 MARGARET, CHAPEL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91081 03101
Details
SD 90 SW,
780-1/3/16
OLDHAM, CHAPEL ROAD (north-east side),
Church of St Margaret
II
Parish church. 1877-79. By R Knill Freeman. Coursed and
squared rubble, cut in small blocks. Graded slate roof with
ridge cresting.
NW tower (1906), nave with two aisles and clerestory. Transepts,
vestry and chapel either side of chancel.
Tower has three principal stages, with west doorway with shafts to
archway, and plate traceried window to north. Decorated
windows and clock in upper stage, and triple chamfered lights
to bell chamber. Clasping buttresses, and embattled parapet.
5-light Decorated west window, with war memorial in traceried
panels below. Lean-to aisles, expressed as three bays each with
paired wide lancet windows. Paired Decorated clerestory lights
with sandstone ashlar dressings in shallow panels. 4-light
Decorated windows to transepts. Octagonal turret with spirelet
to north transept. Chancel chapel has 3-light mullioned and
transomed windows. 5-light Decorated east window to chancel.
2-storeyed north vestry.
INTERIOR: 5-bay arcade of clustered shafts in which
single-banded marble shaft with foliate capital carries square
wall pilaster supporting cambered trusses of coffered boarded
ceiling. Carved heads as capitals to responds. Subsidiary low
and narrow arch at west end with angel corbels. Wider eastern
arches to transepts, and higher blind traceried clerestory
over. Shallow segmental arches across eastern ends of aisles,
probably serving as buttresses. Organ chamber in north
transept with organ by Hills of London, 1886. Chapel to south.
Wide chancel arch with shafts. Canted oak traceried chancel
screen on stone base with ogival central arch and coved
canopy. Integral pulpit with paired open traceried panels in
each face.
Stained glass: south transept window by Capronnier, dated
1887. West window also Capronnier, dated 1884. East window in
medieval style with narrative in dark coloured medallions,
1882. Medallion in north-west window said to have come from
earlier church on site. Various marble memorial tablets on
west wall, including one commemorating James Wolfenden, a
mathematician, d.1841.
Listing NGR: SD9108103101
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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