Christ Church, Denshaw, Saddleworth
Description: Christ Church, Denshaw
Grade: II
Date Listed: 19 June 1967
English Heritage Building ID: 212177
OS Grid Reference: SD9758210570
OS Grid Coordinates: 397582, 410570
Latitude/Longitude: 53.5917, -2.0380
Location: Huddersfield Road, Saddleworth, Oldham OL3 5SB
Locality: Saddleworth
Local Authority: Oldham
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: OL3 5SB
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Listing Text
SADDLEWORTH HUDDERSFIELD ROAD
SD 91 SE (north side)
Denshaw
1/162 Christ Church,
19/6/67 Denshaw
- II
Church. "1863" above door. Built for Henry Gartside. Rock-
faced stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory, aisles,
west tower and chancel. Aisles have projecting plinth and flat
buttresses. Each of 2 bays has a triple cusped lancet window
and porch in bay one has coped gable with kneelers. Quatrefoil
clerestory windows. 5-light east window with geometrical
tracery. Gabled organ chamber and chapel to either side of
chancel. Steeply pitched roof with coped gables and kneelers.
The 3-stage tower has 3-light first stage window a clock face
in the second, 2-light belfry openings, castellated papapet
with stepped merlons and pierced trefoils and corner
pinnacles. Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade arches on
circular columns with moulded capitals. Arch-braced roof
trusses. Gartside chapel has stone altar in cusped recess.
Stained glass. Octagonal stone pulpit.
Listing NGR: SD9758210570
Source: English Heritage
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