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Locally Listed
Grade
Date Listed 23/04/2009
Location Description
Address
St Martins Church & Vicarage
Didsbury Road/Crescent Park
Heaton Norris
Stockport
SK4 2HR
Description
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE/CRITERIA DECISION
Early C20 church with local historical associations, some architectural distinction and fine stained glass, with group value with the neighbouring locally listed vicarage. Large early C20 former vicarage included for group value with the locally listed church of St Martin.
HISTORIC ASSET DESCRIPTION
Anglican church, 1900-1901 by R.B. Preston. Pale orange brick laid in header bond with red brick and red terracotta dressings, slate roof, central flèche. Early English to Decorated style, with lancets and lancets with Y-tracery, five-light east window, two-light clerestory windows. Windowless west wall facing the road with a single storey range attached to the west wall. Large transeptal projections with double gables, south chapel. Organ chamber, north side.
Interior: The transepts are treated as short aisles and have upper windows in the form of a triforium which open into the roof space, an unusual motif. Arch-braced tie-beam roof, nave; wagon roof, chancel. Arcades with mouldings dying in to the piers. To the West there is a half-arch on each side towards the unfinished West end. Tall chancel arch. Furnishings include an attractive pulpit with openwork sides and linenfold panelling.
Stained glass includes a number of mid C19 windows by Abbott & Co. of Lancaster, three in the south aisle by Burlison & Grylls and a large east window by Reuben Bennett. In the south chapel a window of very high quality, a Pratt family memorial of circa 1922, shows the Road to Emmaus. Well composed and drawn, with rich colours and good lettering. It has been attributed to Catherine O’Brien of the Dublin firm An Tur Gloine.
The church was to have had a south-west tower and additional west bay. Had it been completed it would have been one of Preston’s more ambitious churches.
Vicarage, probably by R.B. Preston, architect of neighbouring St Martin’s church, circa 1901. Pale orange brick in header bond, bright red brick, red brick and stone dressings. Two storeys with a three-storey gabled entrance bay of red brick. Windows with flat heads, some with stone mullions. Offset entrance with stone canopy, single storey bay, right hand side. The building is set back behind low walls of red brick which rise and join gate piers with shaped stone tops.
Ref: C. Hartwell, M. Hyde and N Pevsner, Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, 2004, p.233; Pastoral Measure Report 2007.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE/CRITERIA DECISION
Early C20 church with local historical associations, some architectural distinction and fine stained glass, with group value with the neighbouring locally listed vicarage. Large early C20 former vicarage included for group value with the locally listed church of St Martin.
HISTORIC ASSET DESCRIPTION
Anglican church, 1900-1901 by R.B. Preston. Pale orange brick laid in header bond with red brick and red terracotta dressings, slate roof, central flèche. Early English to Decorated style, with lancets and lancets with Y-tracery, five-light east window, two-light clerestory windows. Windowless west wall facing the road with a single storey range attached to the west wall. Large transeptal projections with double gables, south chapel. Organ chamber, north side.
Interior: The transepts are treated as short aisles and have upper windows in the form of a triforium which open into the roof space, an unusual motif. Arch-braced tie-beam roof, nave; wagon roof, chancel. Arcades with mouldings dying in to the piers. To the West there is a half-arch on each side towards the unfinished West end. Tall chancel arch. Furnishings include an attractive pulpit with openwork sides and linenfold panelling.
Stained glass includes a number of mid C19 windows by Abbott & Co. of Lancaster, three in the south aisle by Burlison & Grylls and a large east window by Reuben Bennett. In the south chapel a window of very high quality, a Pratt family memorial of circa 1922, shows the Road to Emmaus. Well composed and drawn, with rich colours and good lettering. It has been attributed to Catherine O’Brien of the Dublin firm An Tur Gloine.
The church was to have had a south-west tower and additional west bay. Had it been completed it would have been one of Preston’s more ambitious churches.
Vicarage, probably by R.B. Preston, architect of neighbouring St Martin’s church, circa 1901. Pale orange brick in header bond, bright red brick, red brick and stone dressings. Two storeys with a three-storey gabled entrance bay of red brick. Windows with flat heads, some with stone mullions. Offset entrance with stone canopy, single storey bay, right hand side. The building is set back behind low walls of red brick which rise and join gate piers with shaped stone tops.
Ref: C. Hartwell, M. Hyde and N Pevsner, Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, 2004, p.233; Pastoral Measure Report 2007.
