Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8597 ARDWICK GREEN NORTH, Ardwick
698-1/20/474 (North side)

03/10/74 Former Church of St Thomas

GV II

Church, now community services centre. 1741, widened 1777 and extended eastwards 1831, tower added 1836 (by William Hayley). Red brick in Flemish bond with some sandstone dressings (roof concealed). Rectangular plan with west porch and tower. Simple Georgian style, with Italian campanile tower. Two-storey 7-window nave (originally 5 and 2 added) with rusticated quoins, moulded cornice, brick parapet with stone coping; round-headed windows to both floors, all with raised stone sills and small imposts, those at 1st floor with Y-tracery and those at ground floor altered. Shallow rectangular addition to west end with projecting square tower, matching quoins, modillioned cornice (carried round tower); round-headed west doorway to base of tower, with impost bands; narrow arcaded round-headed windows to 1st floor, with linking imposts; 3 stages of tower above the cornice, the 1st with slit windows in arcaded blank arches, the next with similar arcades to the front and clock-faces in the sides, and the top with 3-light open-arcaded belfry, prominent cornice and pyramidal roof with weathervane finial. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8518597321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492268

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