College of Missionary Chapel
COLLEGE OF MISSIONARY CHAPEL, SHRIGLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- College of Missionary Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- COLLEGE OF MISSIONARY CHAPEL, SHRIGLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- College of Missionary Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLEGE OF MISSIONARY CHAPEL, SHRIGLEY 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:
- COLLEGE OF MISSIONARY CHAPEL, SHRIGLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pott Shrigley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94288 79765
Details
SJ 97 NW POTT SHRIGLEY C.P. OFF SHRIGLEY ROAD (North Side) Shrigley Park
5/99 Chapel of Missionary College 14/4/1967 (Formerly listed as Church of Shrigley Park) GV II
Large Chapel: 1936-38, by Philip Tilden for Salesian Order. Squared sandstone rubble with slate roof. The body is octagonal with transepts projecting fron the 4 cardinal faces and small radiating chapels between. The main aspect is symmetrical with gabled facade of transept and clerestorey gable above. Triple Romanesque features to ground floor with central, iron-bound doors, and pointed lancets above. Small lead louvre in centre of main roof. Interior: Roughly dressed stone with red sandstone bands and dressings. Octagonal nave under domical vault, with ambulatory and gallery over west door. Chancel has triple round-headed arches on 2 plain, sandstone pillars with Romanesque capitals above similar altar in cream and purple marble. Pairs of round-headed sedilia to either side. Paintings of St. John Bosco and the 12 stations of the cross by the architect.
Pevsner considers the chapel an odd-man-out, yet very interesting. (Pevsner and Hubbard).
Listing NGR: SJ9428879765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407441
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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