Church Of St Clement

The Church of St. Clement is a Grade II listed church located on Urmston Manor Avenue, built in 1868 by J. Medland Taylor. The north aisle was added between 1873 and 1875 by J. and H. Taylor, and the church was lengthened to the west from 1887 to 1888 by Whittenby and Mather, with a tower added between 1899 and 1903. The church is constructed of rock-faced stone and features a slate roof. It showcases a Gothic Revival style with a nave, aisles, chancel, vestries, and a northwest tower.

The south aisle has seven bays, weathered buttresses, two-light windows, a lean-to roof, and a timber-framed porch. The north aisle, beneath a tall pitched roof, has alternating two and three-light windows along with weathered and gableted buttresses, and square pinnacles at the corners. The east end of the north aisle features a circular window divided by vertical stone mullions in an unusual design. An ornate octagonal bell turret with a conical roof, which is partly obscured by the later north aisle, rises above the pulpit. The short chancel has a three-light east window.

The four-stage tower has angled weathered and gableted buttresses, a north doorway, two-light windows, clock faces in front of a blind arcade, and three cusped lancet belfry openings on each side, topped with a coped parapet and corner pinnacles. The west end has a two-light transomed window flanked by lancet windows.

Inside, the church features double-chamfered nave arcade arches, which are significantly taller on the north side, supported by circular and octagonal columns, with only one column having a carved capital. The chancel arch is cusped, and the roof is supported by scissor-braced trusses. To the left of the carved timber pulpit is a cusped arched canopy and a columned niche. The church contains stalls, pews, a carved reredos, a stone bowl font, and stained glass windows, some of which were made by Shrigley and Hunt. The church exhibits many of the distinctive characteristics and qualities for which the Taylors are well-known.