Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW ALEXANDRA ROAD SOUTH, Fallowfield
698-1/8/824 (East side)
Church of English Martyrs

GV II

Roman Catholic church. 1895-6, by F.H.Oldham. Coursed
sandstone rubble with some ashlar, slate roof. Early English
style. Nave with north-west tower, north and south aisles
(short confessional wing attached to north aisle), chancel
with transeptal side chapels. The gabled 3-bay west facade has
buttresses flanking a 2-centred arched doorway with a gable
surmounted by a statue in a niche, blank arches in the outer
bays containing coupled lancets, and above the doorway a giant
blank arch containing a wheel window. The tower, to the left,
has upper stages of ashlar, with clasping pilasters, tall
coupled lancets with shafts and louvres, a corbel-table with
corner gargoyles, weathered coping with corner pinnacles, and
an unusual broach spire interrupted at mid height by an
arcaded stage which has stout colonnettes, trefoil arches and
crocketed gablets. The nave and aisles have lancet windows,
those to the nave with trefoil tracery. Interior: 5-bay aisle
arcades of stout cylindrical piers with moulded octagonal caps
and double-chamfered arches; arch-braced collar truss roof.

Listing NGR: SJ8340294484

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502652

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