Church of English Martyrs is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1994. Church.
Church of English Martyrs
- WRENN ID
- carved-flagstone-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1994
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of English Martyrs, Alexandra Road South
- OS grid reference
- SJ 834 944
- Coordinates
- 53.44687, -2.25137
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of English Martyrs is a Roman Catholic church located on Alexandra Road South in Fallowfield, Manchester. It was built between 1895 and 1896 by architect F.H. Oldham. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with some ashlar and features a slate roof, designed in the Early English style.
The layout includes a nave with a north-west tower, north and south aisles, and a chancel with transeptal side chapels. The west facade is gabled and has three bays, with buttresses on either side of a two-centred arched doorway. Above the doorway is a gable that holds a statue in a niche, and the outer bays feature blank arches containing coupled lancets. Above the doorway, there is a large blank arch that contains a wheel window.
The tower, located to the left, has upper stages made of ashlar and is adorned with clasping pilasters, tall coupled lancets with shafts and louvres, a corbel-table with corner gargoyles, and weathered coping with corner pinnacles. It culminates in an unusual broach spire that is interrupted at mid-height by an arcaded stage featuring stout colonnettes, trefoil arches, and crocketed gablets. The nave and aisles are fitted with lancet windows, with the nave windows showcasing trefoil tracery.
Inside, the church features five-bay aisle arcades supported by stout cylindrical piers topped with moulded octagonal caps and double-chamfered arches. The roof is an arch-braced collar truss design.
Local climate
Church of English Martyrs 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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