Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206917
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206917
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES PLACE
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 GEORGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, ST GEORGES PLACE
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 91842 72976
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9172 HIGH STREET 886-1/8/92 (East side) 17/03/77 Church of St George
GV II
Parish church. 1822-23, with later additions. Brick with stone dressings and Welsh slate roof. Classical style, with pedimented liturgical west front, divided by pilasters into 3 bays. Stone portico with plain entablature carried on Tuscan columns. Central paired entrance doors with radial fanlights, separated by a single 16-pane sash window. Central Venetian window in stone architrave above in segmentally-arched recess beneath the gable apex. Round-arched 30-pane sash windows with flat-arched gauged brick heads in full-height segmentally-arched recesses each side. Return elevations to (liturgical) north and south of 7 bays arcaded by giant pilasters. Round-arched upper windows with radial glazing linked by continuous hoodmoulding, and 30-pane sash windows below. Eastern gable has central segmentally-arched panel with lunettes each side. Chancel with Venetian window a later addition, together with vestries to north and south. The church was built as a speculation and was originally intended as a Congregational Church. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N and Hubbard, E.: Cheshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-).
Listing NGR: SJ9184272976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390998
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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