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Latitude: 53.443 / 53°26'34"N
Longitude: -2.2196 / 2°13'10"W
OS Eastings: 385509
OS Northings: 394043
OS Grid: SJ855940
Mapcode National: GBR DQX.1S
Mapcode Global: WHB9N.WQ6F
Plus Code: 9C5VCQVJ+55
Entry Name: Church of the Holy Innocents and St James
Listing Date: 3 October 1974
Last Amended: 6 June 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1270568
English Heritage Legacy ID: 458252
ID on this website: 101270568
Location: Holy Innocents' Church, Fallowfield, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M14
County: Manchester
Electoral Ward/Division: Fallowfield
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 WILBRAHAM ROAD, Fallowfield
698-1/9/689 (North side)
03/10/74 Church of the Holy Innocents and St
James
(Formerly Listed as:
WILBRAHAM ROAD, Fallowfield
(North side)
Church of Holy Innocents)
GV II
Church. 1870-2, by Price and Linklater. Coursed yellow
sandstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, steeply-pitched
slate roof with diaper pattern of green slates. Gothic style
of c.1200, all openings 2-centred arched with cusped heads.
Nave with north and south aisles, south-west porch, south-east
steeple, apsidal-ended chancel with south chapel and north
vestry. The free-standing square 4-stage tower, with angle
buttresses, corner pinnacles and octagonal spire with
lucarnes, has a south doorway with set-in shafts and moulded
head with ball-flower ornament, a 2-light window to the 2nd
stage, circular clockfaces to the 3rd stage, and coupled
2-light belfry windows and corbel-tables to the top stage. The
5-bay aisles have buttresses and 2-light windows with
quatrefoils in the heads, and the gabled porch to the south
aisle has a doorway with double-chamfered surround and set-in
shafts; the nave has a clerestory of 2 single-light windows to
each bay, and a tripartite west window set in a blank arch,
with a transomed 3-stage 2-light centre and 2-stage side
lights. The 3-bay chancel with buttressed apse has 2-light
windows with multifoils in the heads, under linked crocketed
gablets. Parallel 2-bay south chapel in similar style.
Interior not inspected.
Forms group with former school to east (now the Queen of
Hearts Public House, q.v.).
Listing NGR: SJ8550994043
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