Church Of St Edmund is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 July 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- turning-render-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 July 1987
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MANCHESTER
SJ89NW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Whalley Range 698-1/4/825 Church of St Edmund 13/07/87
II
Church. 1881, by H.R.Price. Coursed squared sandstone rubble, slate roof. Geometrical style. Seven-bay nave with north and south aisles, polygonal apse, unfinished north-east tower. Nave has clerestory of paired 2-centred arched single-light windows with trefoil tracery, large 6-light west window with multifoil tracery; apse has gabled traceried lancets with shafts. North aisle has gabled porch at west end with moulded 2-centred arch including shafts. Square tower built to first 2 stages only, with angle-buttresses, foundation stone dated July 1881, and east doorway moulded in 4 orders, under gablet. Interior: lofty arcades of polished granite coulmns and moulded 2-centred arches; chancel arch with corbelled shafts; elaborate open-truss timber roof to nave, wooden barrel-vault roof to chancel; stone wall to chancel with inbuilt pulpit and lectern (sounding board to pulpit); residual gables over lancet windows of apse, with intervening shafts; baptistery at west end of south aisle enclosed by glazed Gothic screen, containing marble font; stained glass in apse by Shrigley and Hunt c.1912. No longer in use for worship.
Listing NGR: SJ8330095174
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