Description

AUDENSHAW AUDENSHAW ROAD
SJ 99 NW (south side)

4/39 Church of
31/05/66 St. Stephen

G.V. II

Church. 1845-6. By E. H. Shellard for the Church
Commissioners but with a chancel added in 1900. Hammer-
dressed stone with slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with
central west tower, chancel and vestry. Gothic revival. 6-
bay aisles (no clerestory) with weathered plinth, continuous
sill band and coped parapet above eaves band. Each bay has a
weathered gableted buttress and a paired lancet window with
colonnettes and hoodmoulds. Doors below gables in western-
most bays. Corner pinnacles. 5-stage tower with shallow
angled buttresses with nook-shafts, west door, lancet
openings, clock-faces in front of a blind arcade, gargoyles
and a broach spire with lucarnes. Later chancel uses similar
architectural vocabulary with a 3-lancet east window.
Interior: Double-chamfered nave arcade with heavy shaft-
rings to quatrefoil columns which support the arcaded
gallery. Arch-braced roof trusses on moulded corbels. C20
partition below rear gallery. Timber pulpit and stalls.
Stone font. Stained glass.

Listing NGR: SJ9244397589

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595793

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Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas