Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218224
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, BROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218224
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, BROOK STREET
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 PAUL, BROOK 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 92121 73370
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9273 BROOK STREET 886-1/7/10 (North side) 17/03/77 Church of St Paul
GV II
Parish church. 1843-4. W Hayley. Coursed and squared rubble in small blocks with slate roof. PLAN: west tower with spire, nave with 2 aisles and clerestorey, chancel. Perpendicular style. EXTERIOR: 3-stage west tower with wide west doorway, tall 3-light window with transom over, and blind traceried arcading with central roundel (intended for clock?) below tall paired bell chamber lights in upper stage. Stepped parapet with pinnacles at angles and centre. Spire with lucarnes. Doorways in west of aisles, each in moulded arch beneath squared hoodmould, and with rose window above. Aisles divided by buttresses into 6 bays, each with 2-light window. Similar windows in clerestorey. Short integral chancel has lancet windows with transoms, and wide 4-light east window divided by transom. Octagonal buttresses form pinnacles at angles. INTERIOR: unusually consistent detailing in Perpendicular style: nave arcade of 5 bays with octagonal shafts carrying chamfered arches, the arcade continuing into the chancel with organ chamber to north and vestry to south. Western gallery with ogee traceried panels, screened off with part-glazed panels in similar style below. Curved principal and collar roof with ogee tracery filling the spandrels. Low stone chancel screen with ogee traceried panelling and integral pulpit. Similar ogee panelling as continuous band across chancel, stressed as reredos to altar with mosaic infill, and as sedilia to north and south. Pictorial stained glass in east window, 'Suffer the little children', dated 1920. Painted stencil work to eastern bay of chancel roof.
Listing NGR: SJ9212173370
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390910
- 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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