Roman Catholic Church Of St Joseph

MANCHESTER

SJ89NE PLYMOUTH GROVE, Longsight 698-1/5/734 (South side) Roman Catholic Church of St Joseph

II

Roman Catholic church. 1914-15, by Lowther and Rigby. Red glazed brick in Flemish bond with red sandstone dressings and slate roof. Arts and Crafts style. Five-bay nave on north-south axis, with north porch, north-east tower, aisles, south chancel. The gabled north entrance front has a projected single-storey porch/narthex with a plinth and stylised embattled parapet, cusped lancets flanking a wide splayed entrance arch of sandstone with cyma-arched head and hoodmould, and 2-centred inner arch containing a pair of doorways which have shaped lintels and wooden-mullioned doors with glazed panels and ornamental L-hinges, and above and between these a carved plaque with lamb-and-flag emblem flanked by batons with lettered banners; and to the right, a canted baptistery. The gable of the nave has buttresses, a tall segmental-pointed 3-light window with chamfered mullions, cusped mouchette tracery and small-paned coloured leaded glazing, and a coped gable with kneelers. To the left is a short 5-sided stair-turret to the tower, which is tall and square with plain diagonal full-height buttresses and a steeply pitched pyramidal roof with swept eaves and stone gargoyles and turrets at the corners, and has a segmental-pointed doorway in the left side, a gable over this, a statue in a niche, and large recessed segmental-pointed 2-light belfry louvres with weathered sills. The aisles and nave have pilster-buttresses and 2-light mullioned windows, those to the aisle with Art Nouveau cusping and those to the nave very tall with tracery in the heads and small-paned coloured glazing. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8600296036