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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
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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