Church of St Catherine is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. Church.
Church of St Catherine
- WRENN ID
- woven-bailey-pearl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Catherine, Birtles Lane, Over Alderley
- OS grid reference
- SJ 862 747
- Coordinates
- 53.26996, -2.20742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Catherine, built in 1840 for Thomas Hibbert and becoming a parish church in 1890, is a Grade II* listed building. It features English garden wall bond red brick with buff sandstone dressings and a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge. The church has a 5-bay nave, a short chancel, a south porch, and a south-west tower. The nave's bays are separated by buttresses and include mullioned and transomed windows with round-headed upper lights. The gabled south porch is supported by octagonal buttresses with crocketted pinnacles and features a 4-centred headed doorcase adorned with coats of arms in the spandrels, along with a heavy studded and panelled, grained door. A date stone is positioned above the porch. A similar projection on the north side houses the baptistery. The chancel is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. The 3-stage octagonal tower features a 4-centred arched doorcase with the initials "TH" in Lombardic script in the spandrels, single lights above, and stone bands at each stage. The tower is topped with a lattice, openwork stone balustrade and plain pinnacles.
Inside, the church is fitted with 16th and 17th-century Netherlandish or German woodwork, including an arcaded panelled organ screen and baptistery. An ornate pulpit dated 1686, an early eagle lectern, and a family pew with a readers desk made from carved pieces are also present. The church contains good Netherlandic stained glass, some of which dates back to the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The nave roof features arch-braced king post trusses with tracery in the spaces.
Local climate
Church of St Catherine sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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