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Latitude: 53.4128 / 53°24'45"N
Longitude: -2.0894 / 2°5'21"W
OS Eastings: 394154
OS Northings: 390666
OS Grid: SJ941906
Mapcode National: GBR FXVZ.FB
Mapcode Global: WHB9X.WH71
Plus Code: 9C5VCW76+46
Entry Name: Church of St Chad
Listing Date: 11 October 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1259982
English Heritage Legacy ID: 441968
ID on this website: 101259982
Location: St Chad's Church, Romiley, Stockport, Greater Manchester, SK6
County: Stockport
Electoral Ward/Division: Bredbury Green and Romiley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Romiley
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Romiley St Chad
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building
SJ 99 SW WERNETH CHURCH LANE
(east side)
Romiley
1/199 Church of
- St. Chad
- II
Church. 1864-6. J. Medland Taylor. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dressings and clay tile roof. Nave, aisles,
transepts, north-west tower and polygonal apse. 3 bay aisles
(no clerestory) with projecting plinth, weathered buttresses
paired cusped lancets and overhanging eaves. 2 similar
lancets to transepts with rose window above and a porch on
short column to south only. Chancel has 2-light windows with
plate tracery, a continuous sill band, an inscribed band and
contrasting red sandstone voussoirs. Gablet vents on roof
and coped gables with finials: 3-stage tower with angled
weathered buttresses, one incorporating a stair turret; 1
and 2-light openings to each stage, enriched gabled clock
surrounds and a broach spire with hipped lucarnes. Interior:
double-chamfered nave arcade with heavily enriched capitals
depicting the 4 evangelists, St. Chad, Queen Victoria and
the Prince Consort all in an early French Gothic manner.
Scissor-braced roof trusses with a barrel vault to chancel.
Chancel arch on corbelled colonnettes. Part Jacobean
panelling to chancel, Caen stone pulpit, ornate reredos
(1881), sedilia (1899) and stained glass, that to the
chancel donated by John Bright.
Listing NGR: SJ9415490666
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