Former Church Of All Souls

MANCHESTER

SJ8598 EVERY STREET, Beswick And Clayton 698-1/17/533 (South East side) 15/10/84 Former Church of All Souls (Formerly Listed as: EVERY STREET, Ancoats (South East side) Church of All Souls)

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Former church. 1839-40, by William Haley. Brown brick with some stone dressings, slate roof. Romanesque style. Rectangular plan on south-west/north-east axis. The 3-bay gabled east and west ends have square pilasters to the corners and flanking the projected centre bay, all with stone false machicolation and pyramidal roofs and those flanking the centre of the west front including tall open-arcaded belfry stages. The centre of the west front has a stone central doorway, with chevron and lobed nook-shafts on scalloped capitals, a band of elaborate triple-interlaced blind arcading, an 8-light wheel window, a stone band on a corbel table, and a louvred lancet roof ventilator in the gable apex; the outer bays have single tall lancet windows with side shafts and nailhead arches, brick hoodmoulds with run-out ends, and bands like the centre. The east end centre bay has stepped triple round-headed lancets, a stone band like that at the front, and an oculus in the gable apex with corbel table; and the outer bays have round-headed doorways with zig-zag central order. The 4-bay side walls have pilaster strips and simple corbel tables (like the ends), and 2 tall round-headed lancets to each bay. Interior (as reported 15.10.84): 5 bays, with quatrefoil cast-iron columns supporting a gallery fronted with interlaced blind arcading; organ loft at west end, over enclosed west bay. Later raising of choir to sanctuary with round-headed chancel arch outlined by roll-mouldings; stone reredos with 6-bay arcade, below stone-shafted lancets with lobed over-arches on scallop capitals; open-arcaded roof trusses; original box-pews and benches in gallery; late C19 stone pulpit. History: built for Dr Samuel Warren, who had been expelled from the Wesleyan Methodist Connection; assigned a district in 1842.

Listing NGR: SJ8578498202