CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1246948
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, PLATT LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, PLATT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85124 94842
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE PLATT LANE, Fallowfield
698-1/9/688 (South side)
18/12/63 Church of Holy Trinity
GV II*
Church. 1845-6, by Edmund Sharpe. Yellow, buff and brown
terracotta in imitation of stone (including mason's tooling
marks); slate roof. Decorated style. Nave with south-west
steeple, north and south aisles, chancel. The 3-stage tower
has angle buttresses, a cusped south doorway in a 2-centred
arched surround with 2 orders of moulding including set-in
shafts with foliated caps, and a hoodmould with figured stops,
3-light windows to the 2nd stage with crocketed gablets,
paired belfry windows with transoms and diamond-pattern
terracotta grills, an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles
and slender S-shaped flying buttresses to an octagonal drum at
the base of the tall octagonal spire. The 5-bay nave has a
west doorway like that to the tower, a tall traceried 4-light
west window, and pairs of clerestory windows with terracota
tracery and parapets faced with 4-petal tiles; the aisles have
buttresses, 2-light windows with terracotta tracery and
hoodmoulds, and similar tiled parapets; the lower 2-bay
chancel has a parapet with mouchette openwork, and a 5-light
east window with very elaborate mouchette tracery, and is now
surrounded by a C20 flat-roofed addition. Interior: 5-bay
arcades of 2-centred arches on quatrefoil piers of terracotta
with heavily-foliated capitals; scissor-braced roofs to nave
and chancel, with wall-posts rising from foliated corbels.
History: the very unusual terracotta construction was
suggested to Edmund Sharpe by colliery owner John Fletcher
(who used colliery clay to make fire-bricks), for the church
of St Stephen, Lever Bridge, Bolton, built 1842-5.
Listing NGR: SJ8512494842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456035
- 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.
End of official listing
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