Church Of St Mary

SD 83 NE 11/173

NELSON MANCHESTER ROAD Church of St Mary

II Church. 1879 with addition of west bay and tower 1905-8. By Waddington & Dunkerley. Ashlar with slate roofs. Nave with lean-to aisles, chancel and west tower and spire. Nave and aisles of 6 bays, the aisles with 2-light plate-traceried windows, the clerestory with alternate groups of 2 and 3 lancets. Gabled, buttressed porch to 1st bay on south side. Chancel a little lower with 2-light windows in colonnaded arches, and steeply pointed east window of 4 lights with quatrefoils in the head. Small 3-light window in gable apex. Organ loft projects under cross-roof from south side of chancel. Low, steeply offset buttresses to all sides. Tall, severe, west tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses dying into canted pinnacles which recede into the minor faces of octagonal spire, the cardinal faces having tall lucarnes. 3-light west window with cusping and arcaded belfry stages with tall single louvres. Interior not inspected.

In use as a church at the date of listing but converted to a training centre, teaching traditional building skills, in 2012.

Listing NGR: SD8560737595