Listing Text

SD80 SW
698-1/2/579
03/10/74

MANCHESTER

WATERLOO ROAD, Cheetham
(West side)
Church of St Alban

II

Church. 1857-64, by J.S.Crowther; altered. Coursed sandstone
rubble, slate roofs. C13 Gothic style. Nave with north and
south aisles and north and south porches, south-east tower,
full-height polygonal apsidal chancel, north chapel. The 4-bay
nave has 2-centred arched 3-light clerestory windows with
set-in shafts and cusped intersecting tracery, and a very
large 5-light west window with shafts and geometrical tracery;
the aisles have buttresses, 3-light windows with Decorated
tracery and hoodmoulds with block stops, parapets with
prominent gargoyles. Each aisle has a prominent gabled porch
with steeply-pitched roof carried down to low eaves,
angle-buttresses, and a moulded arched doorway with clustered
shafts; the south porch has wrought-iron gates, a
scissor-braced roof and an inner doorway with set-in shafts,
hoodmould with figured stops, and double doors with very
elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges, but the north porch has
been blocked. The 3-stage tower, with angle buttresses and
3-sided south-east stair-turret, and parapet with corner
pinnacles, has (inter alia) a double-chamfered 2-light belfry
window on the south side only, the former east and west
windows blocked. Later flat-roofed brick addition attached to
ground-floor level of tower. The 2-bay chancel has buttresses
and large 3-light windows with geometrical tracery; the
parallel 2-bay chapel has a north-west turret, 2-light windows
in the side and a 3-light east window. Interior: lofty and
impressive, with double-chamfered aisle arcades on cylindrical
columns with foliated caps, very tall chancel arch with
clustered shafts, arch-braced roofs, blank-arcading below the
chancel windows.

Listing NGR: SD8368000279