Church Of St Elizabeth

SJ 78 SE ASHLEY C.P. ASHLEY ROAD

4/9 Church of St Elizabeth II

Church. 1880. By the Honourable Wilbraham Egerton MP. Red English garden wall bond brick and terracotta, red tile roof. Broad, aisleless plan. Nave, chancel, transepts, N.E. vestry and south-west porch. Nave elevation: 3 bays have windows of free perpendicular form; corbel table with chevron moulding between; gabled buttresses with setbacks. Transept windows Decorated. Chancel windows are arcuated triangles containing 3 trefoils. East end gabled with window of Decorated form. West front: angle buttresses and deep nave buttresses, stepped and gable capped. Range of 3 lancet windows with colonnettes between and trefoil heads of moulded brick, trefoil rose-window of rubbed brick with semi-circular lead moulding. Bellcote of 2 lancets one containing a bell with quatrefoil and gargoyles above. South-west porch has gabled roof. Hollow chamfered entrance arch of rubbed brick with chevron moulding to gable. Scissor beam roof truss, original iron gates and lanterns. Interior: has arched beams on stone corbels, diagonal panelling to roof. Hammer beams in chancel. The Honorable Wilbraham Egerton became 2nd Baron Egerton of Tatton in 1883 and was created Viscount Salford and Earl Egerton of Tatton in 1887; he designed the smoking room and family entrance at Tatton Park and there are architectural drawings for further schemes by him amongst the estate papers.

Listing NGR: SJ7723884362