Church of St Elizabeth is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Elizabeth

WRENN ID
dark-keystone-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Elizabeth, Ashley Road
OS grid reference
SJ 772 843
Coordinates
53.35566, -2.34344
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Elizabeth is a church built in 1880 by the Honourable Wilbraham Egerton MP. It features red English garden wall bond brick and terracotta, topped with a red tile roof. The church has a broad, aisleless plan that includes a nave, chancel, transepts, a north-east vestry, and a south-west porch.

The nave elevation consists of three bays with windows in a free perpendicular style, and there is a corbel table with chevron moulding between the bays. The gabled buttresses have setbacks. The transept windows are designed in the Decorated style, while the chancel windows are arcuated triangles containing three trefoils. The east end is gabled and features a window of Decorated form.

On the west front, there are angle buttresses and deep nave buttresses that are stepped and gable capped. It has a range of three lancet windows with colonnettes between them and trefoil heads made of moulded brick, along with a trefoil rose window of rubbed brick with semi-circular lead moulding. The bellcote has two lancets, one of which contains a bell, and is adorned with a quatrefoil and gargoyles above. The south-west porch has a gabled roof and a hollow chamfered entrance arch of rubbed brick with chevron moulding at the gable. Inside, there are arched beams resting on stone corbels, diagonal panelling on the roof, and hammer beams in the chancel. The church retains its original iron gates and lanterns.

The Honourable Wilbraham Egerton became the 2nd Baron Egerton of Tatton in 1883 and was later created Viscount Salford and Earl Egerton of Tatton in 1887. He also designed the smoking room and family entrance at Tatton Park, and there are architectural drawings for further projects by him among the estate papers.

Local climate

Church of St Elizabeth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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