Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, RED LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1231620
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, RED LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1231620
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, RED LANE
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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 MARY, RED LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Disley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 97473 84510
Details
SJ 97 84 DISLEY C.P. RED LANE (South Side)
7/40 Church of St. Mary
27/11/1963
GV II*
Church: West tower and porch 1527-1558, remainder 1824-1835 with aisles of 1828 by Thomas Lee of Barnstaple. Coursed, buff sandstone rubble with sandstone-dressings and a lead roof. West porch and tower, nave and 2 aisles of 4 bays and 1-bay chancel. West tower of 4 stages, with angle buttresses and castellated parapet showing the bases of 8 pinnacles. Surmounted by ornate wrought iron weather vane moved from Stockport parish church. West window of 3 lights with straight mullions and 3-light louvred bell opening with each light round-headed. Sundial on south face. Porch originally on south of nave, also castellated with crocketted pinnacles and a central cross. Entrance under slightly pitched plain lintel. Aisles have buttresses dividing the bays of 3-light windows with intersecting tracery, and castellated as porch. Clerestorey has 3-light lancet windows in square, bevelled openings. Chancel is as the aisles but for 3-light mullioned and transomed east window with trefoil cusped heads in each element (probably later C19 addition). Interior: Arcades of 4 bays on plain octagonal piers supporting 4-centred arches. Wooden galleries in arcades and behind tower. Original early C16 wooden ceiling, over nave, has heavily moulded, slightly cambered tie beams, with applied foliage and angels at their centres, sprung from moulded wooden corbels. At the intersection of the other minor moulded members are flat floral bosses and at the ceiling's centre a ram's head (arms of the Legh family). Aisle and clerestory windows have panels of medieval continental glass with fine Dutch/Swiss east window, dated 1535, depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The original glass was moved to Lyme Park (q.v.) in 1835. Fine Gothic, painted and gilded organ case of 1836 by Samuel Renn. White marble memorial plaque to Thomas Legh, signed A. Gatley Rome 1858. Ornate Gothic stone pulpit and font both dated 1868.
Listing NGR: SJ9747384510
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406499
- 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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