Church of Emmanuel
CHURCH OF EMMANUEL, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207907
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Emmanuel
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF EMMANUEL, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207907
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Emmanuel
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF EMMANUEL, BARLOW MOOR 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 EMMANUEL, BARLOW MOOR ROAD
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 84609 91302
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SW BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/8/637 (North side) Church of Emmanuel
GV II
Church. 1858, by Starkey and Cuffley; with late C20 additions and internal alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble, graduated green slate roofs. Nave with north and south aisles under parallel roofs, small steeple attached to west end of south aisle, south transept, chancel with south chapel and north vestry. Decorated style. The steeple, attached to the west end of the south aisle, is octagonal, splay-footed from a square base, with a continuous arcade of tall cusped and louvred belfry windows round the base of the spire. The 3-bay south aisle and 4-bay north aisle are buttressed and have 2-centred arched windows of 3 cusped lights with cinquefoil heads; the nave has a large 4-light west window with reticulated tracery and the south transept has diagonal buttresses and a 3-light window with similar tracery; the 3-bay south chapel (now covered by C20 glazed vestibule) has 2-light windows (but that in the centre replaced with a door); the east end has diagonal buttresses, the chapel with a traceried oculus above the window, and the chancel has a large 5-light window with spherical-triangle tracery; the 3-bay vestry, attached at right angles to the chancel, has buttresses and 2-light windows. All these windows have hoodmoulds with figured stops. Interior: 4-bay arcades of double-chamfered arches carried on cylindrical columns (now painted red) with moulded annular caps; arch-braced roof to nave, scissor-braced roof to chancel; stained glass including south window of transept by William Morris, 1889, mostly leaf-scrolls but with figures in upper parts of lights; and centre window of north aisle, depicting the parable of the sower in Pre-Raphaelite style with the figure in a landscape of woodland, cornfields, and exuberant foliage (commemorating John Radcliffe, d.1876). Furnishing completely remodelled.
Listing NGR: SJ8460991302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387925
- 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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