Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School
Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School, Heaton Moor Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240551
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School, Heaton Moor Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240551
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School, Heaton Moor Road
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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:
- Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School, Heaton Moor Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockport (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88069 91887
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/10/2017
SJ 8891/8991
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HEATON MOOR ROAD,
Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School
(Formerly listed as Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School)
II
Former United Reform (originally Congregational) Church with Sunday School attached. 1896 by Darbyshire & Smith, architects of Manchester. Tooled rubble sandstone; Welsh slate roofs. Church plan: nave with narrow aisles and with steeple and porch flanking entrance front; transepts, and choir.
Exterior: west front with large four-light geometric tracery window set between two lower lancets, with three lancets below (lighting narthex). Stone banding and moulded strings. Steeple with double chamfered arched doorway, two-light Y tracery windows to first stage; belfry stage with belfry openings set in projecting faces battered above with gables (containing clocks) clasping octagonal spire, the angles between belfry faces occupied by attached shafts with pinnacles - a well-managed and impressive composition. Porch, separately gabled and almost detached, balances steeple, with double chamfered arched doorway. Side elevations with three three-light windows to clerestory and paired lancets to aisles. Transepts with three-light window. Utilitarian offices to choir ends; ridge fleche.
Interior: large space; octagonal piers with double chamfered arches to arcade, that to the transepts taller than the others; choir arch rests on corbelled shafts. High Victorian style furnishings with narthex screen (punched quatrefoils and trefoils).
The Sunday School with double fronted entrance elevation; each bay separately gabled and with Y-tracery window; gabled central porch. Taller recessed hall proper, also gabled with sextafoil in roundel and blind trefoil in gable wall. Side elevations in brick, quite plain. The hall/Sunday School is included for its group value.
A good example of a late C19 Congregational Church, built in a confident Gothic mode, with large uninterrupted internal space.
Listing NGR: SJ8806991887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210901
- 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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