Christ Church

CHRIST CHURCH, LLOYD STREET NORTH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1283013
Date first listed:
24-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Christ Church
Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, LLOYD STREET NORTH
Christ Church, Moss Side, by Cecil Hardisty. Dated 1896 on plaque at east end.
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Date:
2002-09-02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1283013
Date first listed:
24-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Christ Church
Statutory Address 1:
CHRIST CHURCH, LLOYD STREET NORTH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHRIST CHURCH, LLOYD STREET NORTH

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 84414 95852

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW LLOYD STREET NORTH, Moss Side 698-1/4/758 (West side) 24/04/87 Christ Church

II*

Church. 1896-1904, by Cecil Hardisty; dated 1896 on plaque at east end. Glazed red brick with red sandstone dressings and steeply pitched slate roof. Free late Gothic style with Arts and Crafts features. Nave and full-height chancel, north aisle to nave with mono-pitched roof, south aisle to both nave and aisle with pitched roof concealed by parapet, west porch with corner bellcote. String course stepped and carried round. The west end has a 3-bay single-storey porch with narrow buttresses flanking the centre finished as octagonal pinnacles rising through a parapet which has a traceried open-work panel in the centre, a segmental-headed doorway to the centre with a lettered banner above, and in each outer bay a low depressed arched window of 2 cusped lights with mouchette and dagger tracery; above the porch, paired 3-light windows (concealed by scaffold screens at time of survey); and a coped gable, the left corner carried up to a stone bellcote with stone chequer-board patterning below the opening. The aisles have buttresses and large arched 3-light windows with cusped lights and elaborate Arts-and-Crafts tracery, except that to the south side of the chancel which has 2-light windows in the side and a 4-light window in the east end, with emphatic tracery. The east gable has a plaque with a central cross, and Gothic lettering "Ad Gloriam Dei" above, "A. MDCC" to the left and "CXCVI D" to the right, and "Jacobus Moorhouse STP/Episcopus/ posuit " below; a large 7-light traceried window, chequer-board patterning above this and a parapet with traceried stone panels at the corners. Interior (as reported 24.04.87): 4-bay aisle arcades of octagonal columns without capitals and tall pointed and chamfered arches; steps up to 3-bay chancel with south arcade and clerestory; low stone wall between nave and chancel, incorporating pulpit; wooden barrel roofs; west gallery; polygonal font with marble columns; fine reredos and lectern by G.F.Bodley (from church of St Edward, Holbeck, Leeds); organ case by Oldrid Scott (from church of St Peter, Northampton).

Listing NGR: SJ8441495852

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Legacy System number:
388287
Legacy System:
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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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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