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Latitude: 53.4496 / 53°26'58"N
Longitude: -2.2145 / 2°12'52"W
OS Eastings: 385853
OS Northings: 394786
OS Grid: SJ858947
Mapcode National: GBR DRV.5D
Mapcode Global: WHB9N.YKN9
Plus Code: 9C5VCQXP+V6
Entry Name: Former Church of St James
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1200848
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388081
ID on this website: 101200848
Location: Rusholme, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M14
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Rusholme
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Manchester
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Birch with Fallowfield
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE DANES ROAD, Rusholme
698-1/9/798 (East side)
03/10/74 Former Church of St James
(Formerly Listed as:
DANES ROAD, Rusholme
(East side)
Church of St James)
II
Church, now nursing home. 1845-6, by J.M.Derick; altered.
Coursed squared sandstone, slate roofs. C13 Gothic style. Nave
with south-west steeple, north and south aisles, chancel with
north vestry and south chapel on parallel axes. The 4-stage
tower has a weathered plinth, clasping buttresses to the first
2 stages, a set-back belfry stage with clasping corner
pilasters and corbel tables, and a broach spire with lucarnes;
a 2-centred arched south doorway with double-chamfered
surround and hoodmould, small cusped lancets to this and the
2nd stage, and louvred 2-light belfry windows with geometrical
plate tracery. The 6-bay nave has a 2-centred arched west
doorway with double-chamfered surround and hoodmould, a tall
2-centred arched west window with 2 lancet lights and a
quatrefoil in the head and a hoodmould, and a steeply pitched
coped gable with apex cross; and a pilastered clerestory with
an arcaded window of 5 cusped lights and a corbel table to
each bay. The aisles have low buttressed walls with 2 small
lancets and a corbel table to each bay (the 5th bay now
altered as a doorway). Chancel, chapel and vestry in similar
style. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8585394786
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