Church of St Saviour is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Church.
Church of St Saviour
- WRENN ID
- worn-marble-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Saviour, Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 984 687
- Coordinates
- 53.21616, -2.02461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Saviour, built between 1901 and 1909 for the 16th Earl of Derby, is constructed of coursed red sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins, windows, and doorways, topped with Kerridge stone-slate roofs. It features a squat, two-stage battlemented west tower, an aisleless nave with four bays, a one-bay chancel, a gabled south porch, and a north vestry. The east window is pointed and consists of three lancets under a hoodmould supported by carved heads acting as corbels. The nave, the south side of the chancel, and the vestry have square-headed mullioned windows with square labels and hollow-moulded mullions and surrounds, while the doors also have hollow-moulded surrounds. On the south slope of the nave roof, there are two gabled three-light dormers made of oak. A foundation stone in the south wall of the chancel notes that it was laid by Constance, Countess of Derby, on September 14th, 1901.
Inside, the church has a simple plastered interior above an oak dado. The nave features oak queen-post trusses, with through purlins leading to the chancel, and the rafters have diagonal-boarded underdrawing, all made of oak. The seating consists of simple oak pews. A bowl-shaped stone font rests on a base with corner-shafts and stiff-leaf capitals. The church was built to commemorate the safe return of the Earl of Derby's sons from the Boer War, using estate masons and carpenters.
Local climate
Church of St Saviour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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