Church of English Martyrs
CHURCH OF ENGLISH MARTYRS, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207509
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of English Martyrs
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ENGLISH MARTYRS, ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207509
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of English Martyrs
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ENGLISH MARTYRS, 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 ENGLISH MARTYRS, 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 83402 94484
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Fallowfield 698-1/8/824 (East side) Church of English Martyrs
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1895-6, by F.H.Oldham. Coursed sandstone rubble with some ashlar, slate roof. Early English style. Nave with north-west tower, north and south aisles (short confessional wing attached to north aisle), chancel with transeptal side chapels. The gabled 3-bay west facade has buttresses flanking a 2-centred arched doorway with a gable surmounted by a statue in a niche, blank arches in the outer bays containing coupled lancets, and above the doorway a giant blank arch containing a wheel window. The tower, to the left, has upper stages of ashlar, with clasping pilasters, tall coupled lancets with shafts and louvres, a corbel-table with corner gargoyles, weathered coping with corner pinnacles, and an unusual broach spire interrupted at mid height by an arcaded stage which has stout colonnettes, trefoil arches and crocketed gablets. The nave and aisles have lancet windows, those to the nave with trefoil tracery. Interior: 5-bay aisle arcades of stout cylindrical piers with moulded octagonal caps and double-chamfered arches; arch-braced collar truss roof.
Listing NGR: SJ8340294484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387875
- 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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