Church Of St Mark

SJ 99 SW WERNETH STOCKPORT ROAD EAST (south-west side) Woodley 1/226 Church of - St. Mark

• II

Church. 1847-8.Shellard,for the Church Commissioners. Dressed stone, ashlar and slate roofs. 3-sided gallery plan with small chancel and a west tower flanked by entrance bays. 5-bay nave and aisles without clerestory. Projecting stone plinth, sill band, eaves band, coped parapet and coped gables with octagonal corner pinnacles. Each bay has paired lancets with colonnettes and a weathered gableted buttress (angled at corners). Door in bay 1 with sundial above. The 5-stage tower has set-back buttresses which are transformed at the fifth stage in octagonal corner columns to rise as ornate pinnacles Clock in third stage and 2-light belfry openings with clock and parapet above. Chancel with 3-light geometrical tracery east window and abutting lean-to vestry. 5-bay nave has quatrefoil columns with moulded capitals and bases, 3-sided gallery with blind arcading to parapet and an organ at the west, a double-chamfered chancel arch on corbelled colonnettes and a hammer-beam roof. Chancel with-arch braced roof truss. Carved timber reredos and pulpit.

Listing NGR: SJ9312291932