Church Of English Martyrs

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.