Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, COBDEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283093
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, COBDEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283093
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, COBDEN STREET
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 TRINITY, COBDEN STREET
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 86351 01940
Details
MANCHESTER
SD80SE COBDEN STREET, Harpurhey 698-1/3/706 (East side) 20/06/88 Church of the Holy Trinity (Formerly Listed as: COBDEN STREET, Blackley Church of the Holy Trinity)
II
Church. 1908, by Basil Champneys (unfinished). Bright red brick with some sandstone dressings, pantile roof. Arts and Crafts Gothic style. Five-bay aisled nave, low chancel (probably not to original design), narthex. Prominent slab-like buttresses rising above eaves and finished with tiled gables, including 2 at west end of south side which have tusking for intended tower (unbuilt); at west end, a full-width lean-to narthex piercing 4 buttresses which are ramped over its roof. Pointed arched west window of 5 lights with Gothic tracery of stone, and Gothic niches in the flanking bays; 5-light clerestory windows, square-headed single lights to the aisles. Bell turret over chancel arch. Interior: giant pointed-arched arcades, each arch enclosing a pair of arches with octagonal piers; narrow aisles; panelled roof with transverse arches; chancel arch blocked to form flat east end; polygonal font.
Listing NGR: SD8635101940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388024
- 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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