Bolton Memorial Free Church

SK 0445-0545 OAKAMOOR C.P. CARR BANK (West side)

10/142 - Bolton Memorial Free Church - II Free church. 1876. By Edward F.C. Clarke of London. Rock faced ashlar with smooth faced ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles and coped verges. Gothic style; 3-bay nave with west porch, single-bay chancel, north vestry, south-east chapel and porch. Nave: paired trefoil headed lights; gabled bellcote with trefoil-headed arch; lean-to porch at west end, pointed south gateway with roll and fillet moulded arch, chamfered and stopped jambs and wrought iron gate, sundial to the left. Chancel: pointed east window of 3 trefoil- headed lights and Geometrical tracery and returned hood mould, north window similar to those of the nave. South-east chapel and porch: chapel has a pointed south window of 2 trefoil-headed lights and Geometrical tracery, above is a small blind 2-light pointed window. Porch to the west has a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned south window and west door with ovolo-moulded Caernarvon arch. Interior: no structural division between nave and chancel; 3 bay blind arcade to the west with pointed arches on cylindrical columns with bell capitals and waterholding bases, the left hand arch contains the Caernarvon arch door to the west porch; barrel roof with one pair of purlins and ridge piece. Fittings: quadrilobe stone font with fillet moulded clustered shafts and moulded base and basin; full set of panelled pews with shaped and moulded ends; rectangular stone pulpit with early C14 style leaf decoration and 2 pointed arches to the front containing Geometrical tracery. Stained glass: good east window dated 1878 by Powell, also noteworthy are the chancel north window and the nave south and north windows. B.O.E. p. 214.

Listing NGR: SK0539145101