Church Of St Clement

SJ 89 SW MANCHESTER ST CLEMENT'S ROAD (West side) 698-1/8/585 Chorlton-Cum-Hardy

20.16.1988 Church of St Clement

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Church. 1861, by Pennington and Bridgen, with south transept and chancel of 1895 by W.Higginbottom. Coursed squared, sandstone rubble, slate roof with bands of fishscale slates. Geometric Gothic Revival style. Five-bay aisled nave with south-west tower, north-west porch, north and south transepts, 2-bay chancel. The tower has an octagonal belfry stage with shafts to trefoil-headed windows, and a short spire divided in to 2 stages by an arcade of lucarnes. The west end has a cusped west doorway moulded in 2 orders, with foliated caps to the shafts (now flanked by inserted windows). The aisles have 2-light windows, the north aisle has a timber-framed gabled porch of muscular design, and the nave has a clerestory of multifoiled oculi. The transepts have 3-light windows; and the chancel has a 5-light east window with a large multifoil in the head and a hoodmould with figured stops. Interior: altered, the west bays enclosed and a floor inserted, the remainder re-oriented; aisle arcades of 2-centred arches on alternately round and octagonal columns; clustered piers to former chancel; open-truss roofs to nave and chancel; very colourful stained glass in east window.

Listing NGR: SJ8125493802