Description

SJ 99 SW WERNETH STOCKPORT ROAD
EAST
(south-west
side)
Woodley
1/226 Church of
- St. Mark

- II

Church. 1847-8.Shellard,for the Church Commissioners. Dressed stone, ashlar and slate
roofs. 3-sided gallery plan with small chancel and a west tower flanked by entrance
bays. 5-bay nave and aisles without clerestory. Projecting stone plinth, sill band,
eaves band, coped parapet and coped gables with octagonal corner pinnacles. Each bay
has paired lancets with colonnettes and a weathered gableted buttress (angled at corners).
Door in bay 1 with sundial above. The 5-stage tower has set-back buttresses which
are transformed at the fifth stage in octagonal corner columns to rise as ornate pinnacles
Clock in third stage and 2-light belfry openings with clock and parapet above. Chancel
with 3-light geometrical tracery east window and abutting lean-to vestry. 5-bay nave
has quatrefoil columns with moulded capitals and bases, 3-sided gallery with blind
arcading to parapet and an organ at the west, a double-chamfered chancel arch on corbelled
colonnettes and a hammer-beam roof. Chancel with-arch braced roof truss. Carved timber
reredos and pulpit.

Listing NGR: SJ9312291932

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26410920

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)