Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, ALBERT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297931
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, ALBERT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297931
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, ALBERT SQUARE
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, ALBERT SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89097 44495
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
SJ84SE ALBERT SQUARE, Fenton 613-1/6/39 (South side) 07/03/89 Christ Church
GV II
Parish Church. 1890-1, the tower built 1899. Designed by Charles Lynam. Red and blue brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Decorated style, with west tower, nave with aisles and clerestory, chancel with south chapel and north vestry. West tower of 4 unequal stages with angle buttresses and stair turret. Paired shouldered west doors in a single stone archway with low relief figure of Christ in the tympanum. 3-light Decorated windows over, and paired bell chamber lights. White brick arcade beneath embattled parapet. Coped gabled porch to south, and aisle of 5 bays divided by gableted buttresses, with 3-light windows. Paired 2-light windows in clerestory. South chancel chapel of 3 bays, with chancel clerestory above. Ornate east window to south chapel, with cusping to hood mould. East window of chancel of 5-lights, with a small window over. North aisle similar to south, with vestry to east, running at right angles to main axis of church. INTERIOR: 6-bay arcade with alternating octagonal and cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Queen post roof with traceried panelling. Wide chancel arch carried on corbels, with niches to each side; the chancel faced with stone. Carved reredos, wood screen and pulpit. Stained glass windows in north aisle, 1902. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh R B: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-).
Listing NGR: SJ8909744495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
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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