Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89SW BARLOW MOOR ROAD, Didsbury
698-1/8/637 (North side)
Church of Emmanuel

GV II

Church. 1858, by Starkey and Cuffley; with late C20 additions
and internal alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble, graduated
green slate roofs. Nave with north and south aisles under
parallel roofs, small steeple attached to west end of south
aisle, south transept, chancel with south chapel and north
vestry. Decorated style. The steeple, attached to the west end
of the south aisle, is octagonal, splay-footed from a square
base, with a continuous arcade of tall cusped and louvred
belfry windows round the base of the spire. The 3-bay south
aisle and 4-bay north aisle are buttressed and have 2-centred
arched windows of 3 cusped lights with cinquefoil heads; the
nave has a large 4-light west window with reticulated tracery
and the south transept has diagonal buttresses and a 3-light
window with similar tracery; the 3-bay south chapel (now
covered by C20 glazed vestibule) has 2-light windows (but that
in the centre replaced with a door); the east end has diagonal
buttresses, the chapel with a traceried oculus above the
window, and the chancel has a large 5-light window with
spherical-triangle tracery; the 3-bay vestry, attached at
right angles to the chancel, has buttresses and 2-light
windows. All these windows have hoodmoulds with figured stops.
Interior: 4-bay arcades of double-chamfered arches carried on
cylindrical columns (now painted red) with moulded annular
caps; arch-braced roof to nave, scissor-braced roof to
chancel; stained glass including south window of transept by
William Morris, 1889, mostly leaf-scrolls but with figures in
upper parts of lights; and centre window of north aisle,
depicting the parable of the sower in Pre-Raphaelite style
with the figure in a landscape of woodland, cornfields, and
exuberant foliage (commemorating John Radcliffe, d.1876).
Furnishing completely remodelled.

Listing NGR: SJ8460991302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503019

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014