Description

SD 81 NE ROCHDALE GANDY LANE (east side) 3/66 Church of Christ, 20.2.1984 Middle Healey

G.V. II

Church. 1849-50. G Shaw. Random roughly dressed stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave with clerestory has aisles, south west tower and north porch. Chancel with south chapel and north organ chamber/vestry. 6-bay nave with low aisles, 2-light geometrical tracery windows of varying design to both. Aisle has low weathered buttresses with gablets. 3-stage tower has southern door, traceried single-light openings to the bell stage and a broach spire. The chancel, chapel and vestry are roofed separately resulting in a triple east gable. All the roofs have coped gables and cross finials. Interior: double chamfered pointed nave arcades with octagonal piers, moulded capitals and waterholding bases to south. Double chamfered pointed chancel arch. Wooden roof structure with scissor braces is supported on stone corbels. Elaborate wooden screens to south chapel. The church was built with the aid of a Commissioners' Grant.

Listing NGR: SD8858315720

External Links

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