Flowery Field Church (Free Christian) is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Flowery Field Church (Free Christian)
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Flowery Field Church (Free Christian), Newton Street, SK14 4NS
- OS grid reference
- SJ 945 955
- Coordinates
- 53.4563, -2.08414
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flowery Field Church (Free Christian) is a church built in 1878 by Thomas Worthington. It is constructed of snecked stone and features a slate roof. The building has a wide nave with an east gallery, galleried transepts, a south-east tower, and a polygonal chancel. The nave consists of three bays, each bay featuring a projecting plinth, weathered buttress, a continuous sill band, and a three-light flat-headed mullion and transom window with arched lights and a hoodmould. The gables are coped with kneelers and cross finials. The three-stage tower has angled buttresses, a corner stair turret, and two-light windows with Perpendicular tracery on the west and transepts. Conically-roofed stair towers flank the transepts.
Inside, there is a triple chancel arch with piers that have attached columns. The roof features cambered tie-beam trusses with enriched braces and arcading, along with a panelled timber ceiling. Other notable timberwork includes the organ, galleries, pulpit, screens, and pews, as well as stained glass windows.
The church was built by local mill owner Thomas Ashton for the use of his employees for worship, regardless of their creed. The tower bears an inscription that reads: "To the Worship of God by a Congregation bound by no Creeds or Confessions of Faith, who under the guidance of Ministers equally free to follow Truth, humbly strive to love God and to serve their Fellowmen. This Church is dedicated by Thomas Ashton of Hyde and Elizabeth, his wife. A.D. MDCCCLXXVIII."
Local climate
Flowery Field Church (Free Christian) 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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