CHRIST CHURCH

CHRIST CHURCH, GREAT KING STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1206916
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1949
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: CHRIST CHURCH, GREAT KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1206916
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1949
List Entry Name:: CHRIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: CHRIST CHURCH, GREAT KING 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:: CHRIST CHURCH, GREAT KING STREET

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Macclesfield
National Grid Reference:: SJ 91396 73528

Details

MACCLESFIELD

SJ9173NW GREAT KING STREET 886-1/9/88 (South side) 14/04/49 Christ Church

GV II*

Church, now maintained by the Redundant Churches Fund. 1775. Brick with stone dressings. High west tower, galleried nave expressed as 2 storeys externally, and shallow chancel. EXTERIOR: high projecting 4-stage west tower with west door in round-arched Gibbs surround. Elliptical head to window above, blind window and clock in second stage, paired ogee bell chamber lights in upper stage. Embattled parapet above cornice. North elevation has central entrance in advanced pedimented bay. Rusticated stone to this feature, with pedimented Ionic doorcase and acroteria over the pediment. 3 windows each side of the entrance on each level, each with elliptical head and interlace glazing, in moulded stone architrave. South elevation has 7 similar windows to each level. Shallow chancel has Palladian east window, with doorway each side. Round-arched doorcases to 6-panelled doors with lunettes over. High parapet over cornice throughout. Stone plinth and quoins. INTERIOR: continuous raking gallery curved around north, west and south, with panelled parapet, and carried on squared columns, possibly iron encased in timber. Organ on west gallery. Plain plaster panelling to coved ceiling. East window in enriched Ionic architrave, with stained glass dated 1854. Late C18 emblematic stained glass, and late C19 and early C20 pictorial stained glass in north aisle. Stairs to gallery in lobbies each side to east. FITTINGS: box pews. Small marble font, a scalloped basin carried on baluster pedestal, with wooden moulded lid, similar in style to that in Church of St Michael (qv). MEMORIALS: series of stone wall memorials, including memorial to Charles Roe by Bacon, signed and dated 1784. Black and white marble, with inscribed tablet surmounted by obelisk against which a figure in low relief carries a bust of Roe, and representations of the church which he endowed, his silk mill and copper works.

Listing NGR: SJ9139673528

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Legacy System number:: 390991
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.