Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, VAUGHAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390503
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, VAUGHAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390503
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, VAUGHAN 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 ST MARY MAGDALENE, VAUGHAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75611 99452
Details
1481/0/10009 VAUGHAN STREET 09-MAY-03 Winton Church of St Mary Magdalene
II
Also Known As: Church of St Mary Magdalene, WESTBOURNE ROAD, Winton Church. 1913-14. By RT Beckett. On land given by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere. Red sandstone snecked ashlar with stone coped slate roofs. Perpendicular style with buttresses, some with set-offs. Central crossing plan with chancel, north vestry and transept, south Lady Chapel and transept, central crossing tower and nave with aisles. Later C20 west entrance narthex. East end has 5-light window and chancel north side has narrow window to north over the single-storey vestry which has 3- and 4-light windows and segmental arched doorway. 3-light window to transept over. North aisle has a higher separately gabled element adjacent to the transept with 2-light windows and then the lower element with flat-arched 3-light windows. 3-light windows to the clerestory over. The south chapel has a 3-light window to east and 2 small 2-light windows to south with a large 4-light window to the transept. South aisle and nave clerestory has similar fenestration to the north. The unfinished central tower has small single- and 2-light windows. The west end, similarly unfinished, is of brick and blank to the upper part. Projecting from this is a late C20 entrance and narthex with a lean-to roof.
INTERIOR. The chancel has aumbry and double sedilia. Panelling to east wall which has an elaborately carved reredos framing a Crucifixion. Carved altar front, communion rails and choir stalls. Good stained glass.
HISTORY. The Earl of Ellesmere, who paid for the chancel and transepts, died on 13/7/1914 whilst the church was under construction. The outbreak of the 1st World War interrupted building work and the end of the nave and tower were never completed.
A carefully designed church, the central crossing tower adding to the views through and across the spaces, with fine fittings to the chancel.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490403
- 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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