Church Of English Martyrs

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Fallowfield 698-1/8/824 (East side) Church of English Martyrs

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1895-6, by F.H.Oldham. Coursed sandstone rubble with some ashlar, slate roof. Early English style. Nave with north-west tower, north and south aisles (short confessional wing attached to north aisle), chancel with transeptal side chapels. The gabled 3-bay west facade has buttresses flanking a 2-centred arched doorway with a gable surmounted by a statue in a niche, blank arches in the outer bays containing coupled lancets, and above the doorway a giant blank arch containing a wheel window. The tower, to the left, has upper stages of ashlar, with clasping pilasters, tall coupled lancets with shafts and louvres, a corbel-table with corner gargoyles, weathered coping with corner pinnacles, and an unusual broach spire interrupted at mid height by an arcaded stage which has stout colonnettes, trefoil arches and crocketed gablets. The nave and aisles have lancet windows, those to the nave with trefoil tracery. Interior: 5-bay aisle arcades of stout cylindrical piers with moulded octagonal caps and double-chamfered arches; arch-braced collar truss roof.

Listing NGR: SJ8340294484