CHURCH OF ST CROSS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1283072
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CROSS, ASHTON NEW ROAD
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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)
- 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.
End of official listing
