Roman Catholic Church of St Dunstan
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, MOSTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282981
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, MOSTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282981
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Roman Catholic Church of St Dunstan
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST DUNSTAN, MOSTON LANE
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 DUNSTAN, MOSTON LANE
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:
- SD 87118 01983
Details
MANCHESTER
SD80SE MOSTON LANE, Lightbowne 698-1/3/729 (North side) Roman Catholic Church of St Dunstan
GV II
Roman Catholic church. 1937, by E.B.Norris and F.M.Reynolds. Brown brick in Flemish bond, with red brick dressings and tiled roofs. Romanesque style. Nave on north-south axis with low flat-roofed aisles, south-east tower and south-west transept balancing this, short east and west transepts to low octagonal crossing tower, apsidal sanctuary flanked by side-chapels. The high gabled south front, with two pale bands at a low level, has a segmental-headed doorway in the centre with stone surround and hoodmould with keystone, flanked by two low round-headed windows each side. The inner pair of these are set in pilasters rising to flank a tall round-headed blank arch which has red brick infill (gauged in the head) containing a carved stone plaque depicting St Dunstan with various emblems, and above this a tall round-headed lancet with stone surround, and a keystone serving as the pedestal to a niche with a statue. The square tower to the right has a segmental-headed doorway in the right-hand side (like that at the front), pairs of very small loop-lights on 5 levels, then small coupled round-headed belfry windows with unusual corbelled and canted balconies beneath, an unusual band of pairs of loop-lights (in place of a Lombard frieze), and a pyramidal roof. The pilastered 3-bay nave and the transepts have round-headed lancets with stepped red brick surrounds; and the crossing tower has an oculus in each cardinal face. Interior: 3-bay aisle arcades with low plain semi-circular arches; tall round-headed plain arches to the crossing; sanctuary with barrel-vaulted ceiling and apse with mosaic arcading and ceiling depicting the Holy Spirit as dove. Similar to Church of St Willibrord, North Road, Clayton (q.v.), also by Reynolds.
Listing NGR: SD8711801983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388336
- 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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