Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89NE WELLINGTON STREET, Gorton North
698-1/5/698 (West side)
Church of St James

II

Church. 1871, by G.& R. Shaw. Coursed sandstone rubble with
ashlar dressings, slate roof. Decorated style. Nave with
north-west steeple, north and south aisles and transepts,
chancel. The 3-stage tower, the upper stages each set back
with 2-course weathered bands between, has angle-buttresses, a
circular stair-turret at the north-west corner, a moulded
2-centred arched north doorway, a traceried spherical-triangle
window to the 2nd stage, small 2-light louvred belfry windows,
a corbel table to 2-course weathered eaves, and a broach spire
with lucarnes; its stair-turret has a small arched doorway to
the west, a very small lancet to each stage and a cusped
triangular window to the 2nd, and an embattled parapet at the
level of the belfry windows. The 6-bay nave has a prominent
buttress to the south-west corner, a large 2-centred arched
5-light west window with reticulated tracery, and a pilastered
clerestory in which 3-light windows alternate with traceried
spherical triangles. The aisles have low buttresses and
2-centred arched windows with reticulated tracery, mostly of 3
lights, except the 2nd on the south side which has a simple
2-centred arched doorway, and the 4th which has a narrow
2-light window; the transepts have large 4-light windows with
reticulated tracery. The chancel has a large east window in
similar style. Interior not inspected. History: endowed by
Charles Beyer, engineer and partner in the locomotive-building
firm Beyer and Peacock whose works were in Gorton, for his
Anglican workers; built at the same time as Brookfield
Unitarian Church, Hyde Road (q.v.), which was endowed by
Beyer's partner Richard Peacock.

Listing NGR: SJ8861396442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546472

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