Church of St Mark with Christchurch is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mark with Christchurch
- WRENN ID
- hollow-chamber-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mark with Christchurch, Glodwick Road, OL4 1AW
- OS grid reference
- SD 936 043
- Coordinates
- 53.53554, -2.09682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mark with Christchurch is a parish church built in 1876 by John Wild. It features rusticated coursed and squared rubble, cut into small blocks, and has a Welsh slate roof with scalloped bands. The church includes a southeast tower and spire, a nave with a clerestory, two lean-to aisles, and a chancel.
The two-stage tower has clasping buttresses and a shouldered arched east doorway adorned with stiff leaf capitals. The lower stage has triple windows on the south side, while a lancet window is positioned above. The bell chamber features paired lights with shafts leading to the architrave. A corbel table supports the parapet above, which has a central gablet housing a clock on each face, merging into the base of the brooch spire that has lucarnes.
The eastern chapels of the south aisle each have two gables, each with a two-light Decorated window. The aisle consists of four bays separated by buttresses, each containing a two-light Decorated window. There is a gabled porch towards the west with a stepped chamfered arch. The clerestory has triple foiled lights set in recessed panels, and there is a five-light west window. The lower chancel features foiled lancets on the south side and a five-light east window. A gabled vestry is located to the north, and all gables are topped with wrought iron cross finials.
Inside, the church has a nave arcade supported by polished granite columns, along with original roofs and fittings, including a screen, reredos, stalls, benches, and pulpit. Paintings of saints are displayed on either side of the east window. The church is surrounded by a stone plinth wall on the east and south, with cast-iron railings and wrought-iron gates. The gate piers at the angle with Waterloo Street feature stepped pyramidal heads.
Local climate
Church of St Mark with Christchurch 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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