Description

KNUTSFORD

SJ7478 MOBBERLEY ROAD 792-1/3/92 (West side) 15/01/74 Church of St Cross

GV II*

Parish church. 1880-1. Paley and Austin. Brick with red terracotta dressings and red plain tiled and leaded roofs. STYLE: Perpendicular. PLAN: nave with 2 aisles, crossing tower, chancel and side chapels. EXTERIOR: west end has high 6-light window with outer arch clasped between buttresses. Gabled aisle to north, 2-storeyed vestry to south. Porch to west of north aisle, with deep moulded archway and gabled niche above, all in terracotta. The porch bay of the north wall is stressed with a decorative parapet of terracotta panels. Windows of 2 lights flank a central 3-light window, all with shallow arched heads and Perpendicular tracery. The crossing window alone has Decorated tracery. This bay is clasped by buttresses, that to east being the main support for the crossing tower. Tower has 4-light Decorated window with terracotta frieze over in first stage, and square foiled lights above, with paired bellchamber lights with blind traceried frieze in the upper stage. Stone parapet with angle and central pinnacles. 3-light window in chancel chapel. Chancel east window of 5-lights with blind traceried panels to each side and below. Tiny lancet window in base of gable finial above. South aisle similar to north, but partly obscured externally by addition of church hall. INTERIOR: nave arcade of 3 bays to north, 2 bays to south (the vestry occupying the space of the western bay). Stone hollow chamfered octagonal piers with simple ring-moulded capitals and double hollow chamfered arches. King post trusses to roof. Moulding of crossing arch rises from plain brick responds, with similar arch to chancel. Traceried timber chancel screen with fan vaulting to canopy, and vine scroll carving. Pulpit with sounding board, also traceried wood on stone plinth, integral to screen. Chancel has chapel to north, organ chamber to south. Sedilia to south, with heavy terracotta Perpendicular tracery. Painted riddle posts with angels to altar piece. STAINED GLASS: to 3 chancel windows, unsigned, but a medieval-style east window, Renaissance style to north and south. Similar Renaissance-style window in north aisle, dated 1904. Glass by Morris and Co to designs by Burne-Jones in west

window, dated 1893, and representing the Adoration of the Magi, flanked by prophets and apostles. East window of south aisle also Morris and Co, the Good Samaritan, dated 1899. SCULPTURE: low relief bronze Deposition from the Cross depicting burial and deposition with landscape beyond, in relief of subtly varying depth. Housed in pedimented wooden case incorporated in pier of south nave arcade in 1912. Dated 1607, its provenance is unrecorded.

Listing NGR: SJ7564878555

External Links

• St Cross Church, Knutsford at Wikipedia
• St Cross Church, Knutsford official website
• Wikidata Q7592894

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