Description

MANCHESTER

SD80SE COBDEN STREET, Harpurhey 698-1/3/706 (East side) 20/06/88 Church of the Holy Trinity (Formerly Listed as: COBDEN STREET, Blackley Church of the Holy Trinity)

II

Church. 1908, by Basil Champneys (unfinished). Bright red brick with some sandstone dressings, pantile roof. Arts and Crafts Gothic style. Five-bay aisled nave, low chancel (probably not to original design), narthex. Prominent slab-like buttresses rising above eaves and finished with tiled gables, including 2 at west end of south side which have tusking for intended tower (unbuilt); at west end, a full-width lean-to narthex piercing 4 buttresses which are ramped over its roof. Pointed arched west window of 5 lights with Gothic tracery of stone, and Gothic niches in the flanking bays; 5-light clerestory windows, square-headed single lights to the aisles. Bell turret over chancel arch. Interior: giant pointed-arched arcades, each arch enclosing a pair of arches with octagonal piers; narrow aisles; panelled roof with transverse arches; chancel arch blocked to form flat east end; polygonal font.

Listing NGR: SD8635101940

External Links

• Wikidata Q26571979

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)