Church Of St Wilfrid And St Ann

MANCHESTER

SD80SE OLDHAM ROAD, Newton Heath 698-1/3/766 (North side) 20/06/88 Church of St Wilfrid and St Ann

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Church. 1909, by Austin and Paley. Glazed red brick, with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Arts and Crafts Perpendicular style. Four-bay nave on north-south axis with 2-bay chancel at north end, east and west aisles with integral porches at south ends and bell-tower rising from south-west corner of nave. The gabled south front has stone bands, a tall canted bay to the gable of the nave with transomed and traceried windows of 3 and 2 lights, and a checkered stone parapet; to the left, a slab-like bell tower which presents the narrow side, with a pilaster, and has a stone top stage with transomed blind tracery to the front and a bell opening in the side, with ogival moulded surround; and on each side a moulded stone doorway into the aisles, that to the left with a niche above containing a statue and that to the right with an oculus above. The aisles have square-headed 2-light windows and the nave has large segmental-pointed windows with Perpendicular tracery. Five-light "east" window to chancel. Interior (as reported 20.06.88): pink sandstone hollow-chamfered arcades on octagonal piers without capitals; open-truss roof; wooden reredos; low stone wall to chancel with built-in wooden pulpit; stone font; neo-Gothic pews.

Listing NGR: SD8745200618