Description

SJ 99 SW WERNETH CHURCH LANE
(east side)
Romiley

1/199 Church of
- St. Chad

- II

Church. 1864-6. J. Medland Taylor. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dressings and clay tile roof. Nave, aisles,
transepts, north-west tower and polygonal apse. 3 bay aisles
(no clerestory) with projecting plinth, weathered buttresses
paired cusped lancets and overhanging eaves. 2 similar
lancets to transepts with rose window above and a porch on
short column to south only. Chancel has 2-light windows with
plate tracery, a continuous sill band, an inscribed band and
contrasting red sandstone voussoirs. Gablet vents on roof
and coped gables with finials: 3-stage tower with angled
weathered buttresses, one incorporating a stair turret; 1
and 2-light openings to each stage, enriched gabled clock
surrounds and a broach spire with hipped lucarnes. Interior:
double-chamfered nave arcade with heavily enriched capitals
depicting the 4 evangelists, St. Chad, Queen Victoria and
the Prince Consort all in an early French Gothic manner.
Scissor-braced roof trusses with a barrel vault to chancel.
Chancel arch on corbelled colonnettes. Part Jacobean
panelling to chancel, Caen stone pulpit, ornate reredos
(1881), sedilia (1899) and stained glass, that to the
chancel donated by John Bright.

Listing NGR: SJ9415490666

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551047

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