Description

AUDENSHAW AUDENSHAW ROAD SJ 99 NW (south side)

4/39 Church of 31/05/66 St. Stephen

G.V. II

Church. 1845-6. By E. H. Shellard for the Church Commissioners but with a chancel added in 1900. Hammer- dressed stone with slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with central west tower, chancel and vestry. Gothic revival. 6- bay aisles (no clerestory) with weathered plinth, continuous sill band and coped parapet above eaves band. Each bay has a weathered gableted buttress and a paired lancet window with colonnettes and hoodmoulds. Doors below gables in western- most bays. Corner pinnacles. 5-stage tower with shallow angled buttresses with nook-shafts, west door, lancet openings, clock-faces in front of a blind arcade, gargoyles and a broach spire with lucarnes. Later chancel uses similar architectural vocabulary with a 3-lancet east window. Interior: Double-chamfered nave arcade with heavy shaft- rings to quatrefoil columns which support the arcaded gallery. Arch-braced roof trusses on moulded corbels. C20 partition below rear gallery. Timber pulpit and stalls. Stone font. Stained glass.

Listing NGR: SJ9244397589

External Links

• Wikidata Q26595793

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