Latitude: 53.4531 / 53°27'11"N
Longitude: -2.2529 / 2°15'10"W
OS Eastings: 383300
OS Northings: 395174
OS Grid: SJ833951
Mapcode National: GBR DGT.V5
Mapcode Global: WHB9N.CGDN
Plus Code: 9C5VFP3W+6R
Entry Name: Church of St Edmund
Listing Date: 13 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1197826
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387876
Also known as: Former Church of St Edmund, Whalley Range
ID on this website: 101197826
Location: Whalley Range, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M16
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Whalley Range
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Tagged with: Church building
MANCHESTER
SJ89NW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Whalley Range 698-1/4/825 Church of St Edmund 13/07/87
II
Church. 1881, by H.R.Price. Coursed squared sandstone rubble, slate roof. Geometrical style. Seven-bay nave with north and south aisles, polygonal apse, unfinished north-east tower. Nave has clerestory of paired 2-centred arched single-light windows with trefoil tracery, large 6-light west window with multifoil tracery; apse has gabled traceried lancets with shafts. North aisle has gabled porch at west end with moulded 2-centred arch including shafts. Square tower built to first 2 stages only, with angle-buttresses, foundation stone dated July 1881, and east doorway moulded in 4 orders, under gablet. Interior: lofty arcades of polished granite coulmns and moulded 2-centred arches; chancel arch with corbelled shafts; elaborate open-truss timber roof to nave, wooden barrel-vault roof to chancel; stone wall to chancel with inbuilt pulpit and lectern (sounding board to pulpit); residual gables over lancet windows of apse, with intervening shafts; baptistery at west end of south aisle enclosed by glazed Gothic screen, containing marble font; stained glass in apse by Shrigley and Hunt c.1912. No longer in use for worship.
Listing NGR: SJ8330095174
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