Description

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. STRETTON ROAD
(North Side) at
Appleton Thorn.

6/19 Church of St Cross.

II

Church 1886 by Edmund Kirby at the expense of Piers Egerton Warburton
(of Arley). Red sandstone; red tile roof; oak-framed north porch on
sandstone plinth. Cruciform with 2-stage tower over crossing. Low
hip-roofed transepts; 3-window aisleless nave; one-window chancel;
baptistry as a canted bay window projecting from the west end. Rose
window above baptistry; Geometrical east window; straight-headed
reticulated north and south windows to nave and chancel.

Interior: Cradle roof to nave and chancel; crossing arches have
continuous mouldings with no capitals; organ in north transept; east
window has glass of 1870; stone pulpit.

"Better than one expects him [Edmund Kirby] to be": Pevsner and
Hubbard.

Listing NGR: SJ6377883854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn at Wikipedia
• St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn official website
• Wikidata Q7592893

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings