Former Church Of St James

MANCHESTER

SJ89SE DANES ROAD, Rusholme 698-1/9/798 (East side) 03/10/74 Former Church of St James (Formerly Listed as: DANES ROAD, Rusholme (East side) Church of St James)

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Church, now nursing home. 1845-6, by J.M.Derick; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roofs. C13 Gothic style. Nave with south-west steeple, north and south aisles, chancel with north vestry and south chapel on parallel axes. The 4-stage tower has a weathered plinth, clasping buttresses to the first 2 stages, a set-back belfry stage with clasping corner pilasters and corbel tables, and a broach spire with lucarnes; a 2-centred arched south doorway with double-chamfered surround and hoodmould, small cusped lancets to this and the 2nd stage, and louvred 2-light belfry windows with geometrical plate tracery. The 6-bay nave has a 2-centred arched west doorway with double-chamfered surround and hoodmould, a tall 2-centred arched west window with 2 lancet lights and a quatrefoil in the head and a hoodmould, and a steeply pitched coped gable with apex cross; and a pilastered clerestory with an arcaded window of 5 cusped lights and a corbel table to each bay. The aisles have low buttressed walls with 2 small lancets and a corbel table to each bay (the 5th bay now altered as a doorway). Chancel, chapel and vestry in similar style. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8585394786