CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WELLINGTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254833
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WELLINGTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1254833
Date first listed:: 06-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WELLINGTON STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WELLINGTON STREET

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 88613 96442

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ89NE WELLINGTON STREET, Gorton North 698-1/5/698 (West side) Church of St James

II

Church. 1871, by G.& R. Shaw. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Decorated style. Nave with north-west steeple, north and south aisles and transepts, chancel. The 3-stage tower, the upper stages each set back with 2-course weathered bands between, has angle-buttresses, a circular stair-turret at the north-west corner, a moulded 2-centred arched north doorway, a traceried spherical-triangle window to the 2nd stage, small 2-light louvred belfry windows, a corbel table to 2-course weathered eaves, and a broach spire with lucarnes; its stair-turret has a small arched doorway to the west, a very small lancet to each stage and a cusped triangular window to the 2nd, and an embattled parapet at the level of the belfry windows. The 6-bay nave has a prominent buttress to the south-west corner, a large 2-centred arched 5-light west window with reticulated tracery, and a pilastered clerestory in which 3-light windows alternate with traceried spherical triangles. The aisles have low buttresses and 2-centred arched windows with reticulated tracery, mostly of 3 lights, except the 2nd on the south side which has a simple 2-centred arched doorway, and the 4th which has a narrow 2-light window; the transepts have large 4-light windows with reticulated tracery. The chancel has a large east window in similar style. Interior not inspected. History: endowed by Charles Beyer, engineer and partner in the locomotive-building firm Beyer and Peacock whose works were in Gorton, for his Anglican workers; built at the same time as Brookfield Unitarian Church, Hyde Road (q.v.), which was endowed by Beyer's partner Richard Peacock.

Listing NGR: SJ8861396442

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Legacy System number:: 458152
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.