Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208640
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208640
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, CHESTER 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 GEORGE, CHESTER 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 82889 97296
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8297 CHESTER ROAD
698-1/18/57 (North side)
03/10/74 Church of St George
GV II*
Church. 1826-8, by Francis Goodwin, restored 1884 by
J.S.Crowther. Sandstone ashlar, slate roofs. Gothick
Perpendicular style. Nave with west tower, north and south
aisles under parallel roofs, diagonal porches at west ends of
these, and high polygonal apse. Tall west tower of 4 unequal
stages, with set-back buttresses completed as tall octagonal
traceried pinnacles with embattled tops and crocketed
spirelets; 2-centred arched west doorway with set-in shafts
and 3 orders of moulding, double doors with Perpendicular
tracery, traceried 2-light west window, clock-face over this,
coupled traceried 2-light windows to the 3rd stage, tall
set-back 4th stage with slender louvred and traceried belfry
window, open-work parapet and much carved ornament. Six-bay
aisles with buttresses finished as pinnacles rising through
embattled parapet, large 2-centred arched 3-light transomed
windows with Perpendicular tracery and hoodmoulds; diagonal
west porches with doorways similar to west doorway of tower,
and traceried 2-light windows. Embattled parapet to nave,
terminating in octagonal east turrets matching the pinnacles
of the tower. High polygonal apse. Interior not inspected but
reported as having: galleries; Perpendicular arcades; wall
monument to The Hon. George Berkeley Molyneux (d.1841), by
Edward Physick, in form of soldier mourning beside urn (these
details from Pevsner).
Listing NGR: SJ8288997296
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/43977
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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