Church of Saint Martin is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Church.
Church of Saint Martin
- WRENN ID
- south-solder-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Martin, Vicarage Road North
- OS grid reference
- SD 884 102
- Coordinates
- 53.58849, -2.17562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Martin is a church built between 1860 and 1862, designed by Ernest Bates. It features coursed rubble construction with a slate roof. The building includes a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, and a northwest tower with an entrance. The chancel has vestries on either side and is designed in a late 13th-century style. The clerestory and aisles have four bays, with three-light openings in the clerestory and two-light openings in the aisles, which are supported by weathered buttresses and have corbelled eaves. The three-storey tower has an arched doorway, angle buttresses, and two enriched two-light openings in the belfry, along with quatrefoil banding. The spire features broach statues with corbelled canopies and a gabled lucarne on each cardinal face. The transepts are supported by angled buttresses and have four-light windows with coped gables. The two-bay chancel includes two-light windows and a five-light east window. Inside, there are alternating circular and octagonal columns in the nave arcade with double chamfered arches. The nave roof is supported by arched braced king-post trusses, and the chancel arch is adorned with clustered columns, while the chancel has a barrel-vault ceiling.
Local climate
Church of Saint Martin sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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