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Latitude: 53.4095 / 53°24'34"N
Longitude: -2.1578 / 2°9'27"W
OS Eastings: 389609
OS Northings: 390315
OS Grid: SJ896903
Mapcode National: GBR FYC0.NH
Mapcode Global: WHB9W.TKPJ
Plus Code: 9C5VCR5R+RV
Entry Name: Church of St Joseph
Listing Date: 16 September 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1067167
English Heritage Legacy ID: 210892
ID on this website: 101067167
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, SK1
County: Stockport
Electoral Ward/Division: Brinnington and Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Stockport
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Stockport St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
TATTON STREET
SJ 89 SE, SP/39 0/39
CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH
II
Roman Catholic church. 1861-2 by Matthew Ellison Hadfield of Sheffield, architect,
Messrs J Robinson of Hyde, Cheshire, builders. Hammer-dressed Yorkshire grit-stone,
Hollington stone dressings, slate roofs. Basilican plan: nave and clerestory, three
sided apse, aisles and south side base of tower, 2-storey sacristy. Nave and apse
under one roof pitch. Simplified High Victorian gothic, early decorated details
"of an English type" (Builder). Liturgical west front has two lancets flanking ogee
headed door under pitched gable with crockets. Two 3-light geometric tracery
windows above, cinquefoil roundel in gable. 3-light tracery clerestory and apse
windows, segmental tracery aisle liturgical east windows. INTERIOR: 5-bay nave
arcades, Derbyshire marble bases, Yorkshire stone shafts and capitals, simplified
chamfered arches. Arched braced panelled nave roof. Chancel arch reduced to
doubled arched braces with quatrefoil panelling, set on stone corbel. Exposed
raftered aisle roofs. Original built-in confessionals extended through aisle walls
under traceried windows. West gallery. High altar and chancel furniture as
memorial to 1914-1918 war dead. East window, stained, 1882. Design heavily
influenced by Hadfield's former partner George Goldie and by the mid-century re-
action against A W N Pugin's planning and liturgical principles: "arrange(d).. so
that the greatest possible space shall be given up for the use of the congregat-
ion with the facility for seeing and hearing and abundance of light": Builder,
March 30, 1862, p 216. Centenary Record, Diocese of Shrewsbury, 1851-1951, (1951,
pp 91-92.
Listing NGR: SJ8960990315
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