Church Of St Agnes

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE SLADE LANE, Longsight 698-1/9/736 (West side) Church of St Agnes

II

Also known as: Church of St Agnes HAMILTON ROAD Longsight. Church. 1884-5, by Medland and Henry Taylor, with north aisle added 1895; slightly altered. Speckled brick in English bond, with red brick dressings and steeply-pitched red tiled roof. Arts and Crafts style. Nave with south porch and canted-bay west window, north aisle with apsidal west end and 2-storey transept at east end, south chapel in the form of coupled transepts to the nave and chancel, chancel with triangular apse; and a roof bellcote. The nave, 4 bays with buttresses and low eaves, has a gabled porch to the 1st bay with 2-centred arched doorway chamfered in 3 orders, steeply-pitched roof carried down to low eaves; windows of 2, 3 and 3 lancet lights, and a gabled dormer in the roof, and playfully-designed bellcote on the ridge with a lateral pitched roof surmounted by a fleche; and the coupled gables of the chapel have 2-light lancets. The west end is emphatically asymmetrical, having a tall canted bay to the nave with tall cusped lancets and hipped roof, one small lancet to the left and 3 to the right, and to the left, projecting from the west end of the aisle, a semicircular apse which has lancet windows and a 2-centred arched doorway with hoodmould above carried round. The north side of the aisle has three 3-light windows of stepped lancet lights under tall gables, beyond these a large red-brick gabled dormer half-way up the slope, with a window of 3 cusped lights, and at the east end 2-storeyed transept. The triangular apse to the chancel has a foundation stone dated July 1884, and in each of its 2 sides two 2-light windows with cusped lights. Interior: very fine deeply arch-braced kingpost roof with wind-braced purlins, common rafters with collars, and diagonal roof boarding; 3-bay aisle arcade with short cylindrical piers and stepped 2-centred arches of brick (openings now filled with C20 glazed screens), and aisle (now church hall) with exposed wooden gable roofs; 2-centred chancel arch with polychrome voussoirs, on short quatrefoil piers; chancel with 2-bay south arcade of 2-centred brick arches (the centre open and Y-shaped); baptistry in canted apse at west end of nave.

Listing NGR: SJ8695994860