Christ Church

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW PRINCESS ROAD, Barlow Moor 698-1/8/506 (East side) 17/09/92 Christ Church

II

Church. 1881-2, by Henry Littler. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings (roofs not visible). Gothic style of c.1300. Nave with north and south aisles, west tower, chancel. Three-stage tower with angle buttresses (small diagonal staircase in south-east angle), moulded plinth, 2 string-courses, and plain parapet, has shallow west porch with moulded 2-centred arched doorway with set-in shafts, and steeply-pitched gable with apex cross, coupled 2-centred arched west windows each of 2 cusped lights with double-chamfered surrounds, square clock-face above these, and coupled 2-light belfry windows with louvres; and in the south side a 2-light window at ground floor, and a square window to the 2nd stage with 3 trefoil lights and a band of quatrefoils. The 6-bay nave has square-headed clerestory windows of 2 cusped lights alternately with trefoils and quatrefoils in the head, and parapets with ridged coping; the aisles have buttresses and 2-centred 2-light traceried windows. Two-bay chancel. Interior: conventional aisle arcades of 2-centred arches on octagonal piers.

Listing NGR: SJ8304091883