Description

DENTON MANCHESTER ROAD
SJ 99 NW (south side)

4/48 Christ Church
27/11/67 (formerly listed as Church of
Christ)

G.V. II

Church. 1848-53. By G.G.Scott for the Church Commissioners.
Hammer-dressed stone with slate roof. Nave and aisles (no
clerestory) each under a pitched roof. North-west tower,
chancel. Gothic revival. Plain exterior has 4-bay aisles
with projecting plinth and weathered buttresses placed at
corners only. Each bay has a 2-light window with plate
tracery. Similar windows to 3-bay nave but with hoodmoulds
and carved stops. 4-light east window and 3-light west
window with geometrical tracery. Coped gables with finials.
The 3-stage tower has bold angled buttresses, an arched door
beneath a gable, lancet openings at second stage, paired
lancet belfry openings with clock faces above, and a broach
spire with lucarnes Interior: double-chamfered nave arcade
with alternating circular and octagonal columns with moulded
capitals and bases. Arch-braced roof trusses spring from
carved corbels Waggon roof to chancel. Alabaster font and
pulpit. Stained glass. Timber fittings. The 2 west bays and
the north aisle have been partitioned off in C20.

Listing NGR: SJ9200695477

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26320749

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