Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389141
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389141
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MANCHESTER 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 MARY, MANCHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Partington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7182991580
Details
SJ79SW
1482/4/10013
17-JAN-01
PARTINGTON
MANCHESTER ROAD
(North side)
CHURCH OF ST MARY
II
Church. Dated 1883. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs. North European Gothic style. Plinth and buttresses. Pointed arched windows with plain surrounds and without tracery. Nave, chancel and vestry under continuous roof. Northeast tower, south porch. Church hall and ancillary rooms, 1975 and 1991, attached to north - while not of special interest in themselves they do not detract from the quality of the original composition.
Chancel, 2 bays, has east gable with unequal slopes, coped gable stack, and finial cross. 3-light window with datestone beneath. Left of centre, a 2-light pointed arched window to the vestry. South side has a single window to west. North side has single window.
Nave, 4 bays, has west gable with 2 single lancets, coped gable stack, and finial cross. South side has gabled porch with pointed arched doorway, flanked by single window to west and 2 to east. North side has 3 windows, the remainder covered by later C20 addition. Addition has large hipped roof. To east, porch with double doors, flanked to south by 2 triangular headed windows.
Tower, 3 stages, unbuttressed and slightly battered. Plain pointed arched door to south. First stage has a quatrefoil window on each side, below a blind gable. Setback bell stage, ashlar, has timber framed bell enclosure with louvred openings under cusped heads containing trefoils. Tiled hipped square spire.
INTERIOR: Rendered. Chancel has very unusual ashlar triple arch with chamfered pointed openings, the central opening larger. Pink granite piers with exaggerated Romanesque capitals and water-holding bases. Roof with cusped principal rafters, cambered laminated cross-beams, and kingposts with curved braces. North side has plain doorway, south side, pointed arched doorway. East end has projecting stucco window surround with gabled heads to graduated lights. Stained glass by Percy Bacon of London.
Nave has similar roof structure, with plain principal rafters. West window has patterned stained glass. South side has pointed arched door and 3 windows. North side has 4 windows, that to east with later C20 double doors inserted beneath. Central window on each side has memorial stained glass, that to north dated 1913.
FITTINGS: Cusped panelled wooden reredos, wooden altar rail and lecterns, all C20.
MEMORIALS: Brasses 1908 and 1923. War memorial brasses, 1918 and 1945.
Included as a striking arts and crafts church, stylistically advanced for its date.
Listing NGR: SJ7182991580
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486735
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45262
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/45261
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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