Description

MANCHESTER

SJ89NW WHALLEY ROAD, Whalley Range
698-1/4/831 (South East side)
03/10/74 Church of St Margaret

II

Church. 1848-9, by J.Harrison. Coursed sandstone rubble, red
tile roof with cockscomb ridge. Decorated style. Nave with
north and south aisles, north porch, west steeple, chancel
with north vestry and south chapel. The 3-stage tower has a
plinth with moulded gritstone coping, angle-buttresses, a
2-centred arched west doorway with moulded surround and
hoodmould with carved stops, a 2-light traceried west window
with trefoil lights and hoodmould, a lancet to the 2nd stage,
louvred belfry windows (like the first below but shorter), and
a broach spire which has large 2-light lucarnes at the base,
with louvres and crocketed gablets, small lucarnes on 2 levels
above, and a weathervane. The 5-bay nave has 2-light
clerestory windows with cusped traceried heads; the north
aisle has buttresses and segmental-pointed windows of 3
trefoil lights, and a gabled porch to the 2nd bay, with
diagonal buttresses, a moulded 2-centred arched doorway with
hoodmould, and coped gable with apex cross; the south aisle
has windows like those of the north aisle but with mouchette
tracery, and a 2-centred arched doorway with figured stops to
the hoodmould. The chancel and chapel have 3-light east
windows with elaborate mouchette tracery, and the chapel has
2-light windows also with mouchette tracery. Interior: not
inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ8281695432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26681750

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]