Church Of The Ascension

SALFORD

SJ89NW CLARENCE STREET 949-1/4/47 (North side) Church of the Ascension

GV II

Anglican church. c1870. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Nave with 2 aisles, chancel with transeptual chapels and apsidal E end, slightly higher than the nave. Early English style, with robust, muscular detail. EXTERIOR: western narthex with arched doorways each side, and stepped arcading in high tumbled brick coping echoing the line of its lean-to roof. W door in gabled porch projecting from narthex, with lancets each side. Blind arcading corbelled out above, and massive rose window with simplified tracery and bands of decorative brickwork enriching the apex of the gable. Lean-to aisles divided into 4 bays by buttresses, with alternately triple lancets and paired plate traceried windows over. Plate tracery with minimally expressed hoodmould in western walls. Blocked window in lean-to porch to SE. Low clerestory over divided by pilasters, each bay containing a range of 5 squat lancet windows. Apsidal end of chancel articulated with buttresses which carry squat shafts with enriched stone capitals between paired windows, also divided by shafts. Tiled sill-band with texts. Ornate moulded brick eaves cornice, scalloped bands in slate roof with cross finial. Transepts have single and paired windows with lunette in E walls with terracotta dressings. Paired lancets each side of S wall, stone rose window with simplified tracery in gable apex and decorative brick banding and corbelling. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8265799812