Brookfield Unitarian Church
BROOKFIELD UNITARIAN CHURCH, HYDE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218832
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKFIELD UNITARIAN CHURCH, HYDE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1218832
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOKFIELD UNITARIAN CHURCH, HYDE ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BROOKFIELD UNITARIAN CHURCH, HYDE 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 88917 95918
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89NE HYDE ROAD, Gorton South 698-1/5/701 (South side) 03/10/74 Brookfield Unitarian Church (Formerly Listed as: HYDE ROAD, Gorton (South side) Brookfield Unitarian Church)
GV II*
Unitarian church. 1869-71, by Thomas Worthington. Coursed sandstone rubble, slate roof. Early English style. Nave, north and south aisles, free-standing steeple attached to north aisle close to west end, chancel with transepts. The 4-stage tower with angle-buttresses, string-courses, embattled parapet with corner gargoyles and tall slender broach spire, has a 2-centred arched north doorway, one and 2 lancets to the next 2 stages, paired 2-light belfry windows with cusped lights, and lucarnes to the base of the spire. The 6-bay nave has 3-light clerestory windows, and the buttressed aisles 2-centred arched 2-light windows. Transepts of chancel have similar windows. Large east and west windows. Gable copings with kneelers and apex crosses. Interior (Pevsner): aisle arcades of sandstone on columns of pink polished granite; plastered walls. History: commissioned and endowed by Richard Peacock, engineer and partner in locomotive-building firm of Beyer and Peacock; cost »12,000; demonstrates ecumenical nature of later C19 Unitarianism.
Listing NGR: SJ8891595914
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 388206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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