Church of St Cross
CHURCH OF ST CROSS, ASHTON NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283072
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CROSS, ASHTON NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283072
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CROSS, ASHTON NEW 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 ST CROSS, ASHTON NEW 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 88016 98539
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ89NE ASHTON NEW ROAD, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/5/525 (North side) 18/12/63 Church of St Cross (Formerly Listed as: ASHTON NEW ROAD, Clayton Church of St Cross)
II*
Church. 1863-66, by William Butterfield. Red brick with multiple bands of sandstone and blue brick, much blue brick diapering, and sandstone dressings; steeply-pitched slate roofs. Gothic "Middle Pointed" style. Tall 7-bay nave with low north and south aisles, west narthex, south west tower with south porch, full-height 2-bay chancel with low transepts. The tower is narrow and tall, with slender angle buttresses and a steep pyramidal roof of banded slate, and has a gabled south porch with 2-centred arched doorway, very narrow lancets to the next 2 stages, and triple-lancet louvred belfry windows. The nave has a lean-to 3-bay narthex at the west end, with a cusped doorway flanked by square-headed windows, and above this three 2-light west windows with quatrefoils in the heads and a simple plate-traceried rose window above; and tall 2-light clerestory windows. The chancel has 2 pairs of similar clerestory windows, and a 5-light east window set very high. The aisles have 2-centred arched 2-light windows alternately paired and single; and the transepts have twin gables and 2 windows like those of the aisles. Interior: 5-bay aisle arcades with quatrefoil piers, 2-centred double-chamfered arches and diapered spandrels; banded aisles and clerestory, diapered west end; arch-braced roof trusses; high chancel arch; geometrical-pattern painted panelling to chancel with carved stiff-leaf frieze, and above this trefoil-headed blank arcading with polished shafts.
Listing NGR: SJ8801698539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387907
- 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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