Church Of St Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Church.

Church Of St Cross

WRENN ID
frozen-keystone-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Warrington
Country
England
Date first listed
23 December 1983
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. STRETTON ROAD (North Side) at Appleton Thorn.

6/19 Church of St Cross.

II

Church 1886 by Edmund Kirby at the expense of Piers Egerton Warburton (of Arley). Red sandstone; red tile roof; oak-framed north porch on sandstone plinth. Cruciform with 2-stage tower over crossing. Low hip-roofed transepts; 3-window aisleless nave; one-window chancel; baptistry as a canted bay window projecting from the west end. Rose window above baptistry; Geometrical east window; straight-headed reticulated north and south windows to nave and chancel.

Interior: Cradle roof to nave and chancel; crossing arches have continuous mouldings with no capitals; organ in north transept; east window has glass of 1870; stone pulpit.

"Better than one expects him [Edmund Kirby] to be": Pevsner and Hubbard.

Listing NGR: SJ6377883854

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