Church of the Holy Innocents and St James
CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS AND ST JAMES, WILBRAHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270568
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Innocents and St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS AND ST JAMES, WILBRAHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270568
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Innocents and St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS AND ST JAMES, WILBRAHAM 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:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS AND ST JAMES, WILBRAHAM 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 85509 94043
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE WILBRAHAM ROAD, Fallowfield 698-1/9/689 (North side) 03/10/74 Church of the Holy Innocents and St James (Formerly Listed as: WILBRAHAM ROAD, Fallowfield (North side) Church of Holy Innocents)
GV II
Church. 1870-2, by Price and Linklater. Coursed yellow sandstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof with diaper pattern of green slates. Gothic style of c.1200, all openings 2-centred arched with cusped heads. Nave with north and south aisles, south-west porch, south-east steeple, apsidal-ended chancel with south chapel and north vestry. The free-standing square 4-stage tower, with angle buttresses, corner pinnacles and octagonal spire with lucarnes, has a south doorway with set-in shafts and moulded head with ball-flower ornament, a 2-light window to the 2nd stage, circular clockfaces to the 3rd stage, and coupled 2-light belfry windows and corbel-tables to the top stage. The 5-bay aisles have buttresses and 2-light windows with quatrefoils in the heads, and the gabled porch to the south aisle has a doorway with double-chamfered surround and set-in shafts; the nave has a clerestory of 2 single-light windows to each bay, and a tripartite west window set in a blank arch, with a transomed 3-stage 2-light centre and 2-stage side lights. The 3-bay chancel with buttressed apse has 2-light windows with multifoils in the heads, under linked crocketed gablets. Parallel 2-bay south chapel in similar style. Interior not inspected. Forms group with former school to east (now the Queen of Hearts Public House, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8550994043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458252
- 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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