Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLYMOUTH GROVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246949
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLYMOUTH GROVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246949
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLYMOUTH GROVE
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:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH, PLYMOUTH GROVE
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 86002 96036
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89NE PLYMOUTH GROVE, Longsight 698-1/5/734 (South side) Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph
II
Roman Catholic church. 1914-15, by Lowther and Rigby. Red glazed brick in Flemish bond with red sandstone dressings and slate roof. Arts and Crafts style. Five-bay nave on north-south axis, with north porch, north-east tower, aisles, south chancel. The gabled north entrance front has a projected single-storey porch/narthex with a plinth and stylised embattled parapet, cusped lancets flanking a wide splayed entrance arch of sandstone with cyma-arched head and hoodmould, and 2-centred inner arch containing a pair of doorways which have shaped lintels and wooden-mullioned doors with glazed panels and ornamental L-hinges, and above and between these a carved plaque with lamb-and-flag emblem flanked by batons with lettered banners; and to the right, a canted baptistery. The gable of the nave has buttresses, a tall segmental-pointed 3-light window with chamfered mullions, cusped mouchette tracery and small-paned coloured leaded glazing, and a coped gable with kneelers. To the left is a short 5-sided stair-turret to the tower, which is tall and square with plain diagonal full-height buttresses and a steeply pitched pyramidal roof with swept eaves and stone gargoyles and turrets at the corners, and has a segmental-pointed doorway in the left side, a gable over this, a statue in a niche, and large recessed segmental-pointed 2-light belfry louvres with weathered sills. The aisles and nave have pilster-buttresses and 2-light mullioned windows, those to the aisle with Art Nouveau cusping and those to the nave very tall with tracery in the heads and small-paned coloured glazing. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8600296036
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456039
- 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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