Church of St Clement is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Clement
- WRENN ID
- woven-courtyard-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Withington MP: Jeff Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Clement, St Clements Road, M21 9EE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 812 938
- Coordinates
- 53.44067, -2.28367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Clement is a church built in 1861 by Pennington and Bridgen, with a south transept and chancel added in 1895 by W. Higginbottom. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble and features a slate roof with bands of fishscale slates, showcasing a geometric Gothic Revival style. The church has a five-bay aisled nave, a south-west tower, a north-west porch, north and south transepts, and a two-bay chancel.
The tower includes an octagonal belfry stage with shafts supporting trefoil-headed windows, topped by a short spire divided into two stages by an arcade of lucarnes. The west end features a cusped doorway with a moulding in two orders and foliated caps on the shafts, now flanked by inserted windows. The aisles contain two-light windows, while the north aisle has a timber-framed gabled porch with a robust design. The nave includes a clerestory with multifoiled oculi. The transepts are adorned with three-light windows, and the chancel boasts a five-light east window with a large multifoil at the top and a hoodmould with figured stops.
Inside, the church has undergone alterations, with the west bays enclosed and a floor inserted, while the remainder has been re-oriented. The aisle arcades consist of two-centred arches on alternating round and octagonal columns, with clustered piers in the former chancel. The nave and chancel feature open-truss roofs, and the east window is filled with very colorful stained glass.
Local climate
Church of St Clement sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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