Didsbury Methodist Church of St Paul
DIDSBURY METHODIST CHURCH OF ST PAUL, WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254966
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Didsbury Methodist Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- DIDSBURY METHODIST CHURCH OF ST PAUL, WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254966
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Didsbury Methodist Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIDSBURY METHODIST CHURCH OF ST PAUL, WILMSLOW 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:
- DIDSBURY METHODIST CHURCH OF ST PAUL, WILMSLOW ROAD
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 84785 90704
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8490 WILMSLOW ROAD, Didsbury 698-1/25/670 (East side) 11/11/87 Didsbury Methodist Church of St Paul
GV II
Methodist church. 1875, by E.T.Barry and Sons. Coursed squared sandstone rubble, steeply pitched roof of graduated green slates. Nave with transepts, chancel with north vestry and south organ house, south-west steeple. Gothic style. The 3-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, a 2-centred arched west doorway with 2 orders of moulding including foliated bands and shafts with foliated caps, coupled lancets to the 2nd stage, coupled belfry lancets with shafts and hoodmoulds with figured stops, a foliated cornice with pseudo-gargoyles at the corners, square corner pinnacles with shafts, and a broach spire with lucarnes. The 3-bay nave has stepped triple lancets rising into gablets, and a traceried 5-light west window; the buttressed aisles have arcaded 5-light windows, and the north aisle has a gabled porch at the west end, with 2-centred arched doorway and steeply-pitched roof. The transepts have angle-buttresses and corner pinnacles like those of the tower, 3-light windows in the gables and coupled lancets in the sides; and the chancel has a traceried 3-light east window with figured stops to the hoodmould. Most windows have geometrical coloured glazing. Interior: aisle arcades of polished granite columns with carved capitals and 2-centred arches; barrel roof to nave, on corbelled columns; wide crossing with stout corbelled shafts to the arches; wide chancel arch, and 3-bay chancel arcades (blank arches on north side, organ on south side) with heavily-carved 2-centred arches; encaustic tiled floors; painted panelled barrel roof to chancel; stone pulpit on granite shafts; marble reredos; carving throughout includes foliage, fruit, animals and birds; several wall monuments to "tutors of this college" (etc). History: associated with former Wesleyan Theological College to south (now Manchester Polytechnic School of Education, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8478590704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458447
- 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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