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Locally Listed
Grade
Date Listed 23/04/2009
Location Description
Address
United Reform Church & Sunday School
Buxton Road
Great Moor
Stockport
SK2 7NU
Description
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE/CRITERIA DECISION
United Reformed Church of architectural and local historic interest which is a local landmark. Former school of associational interest and with group value with the former.
HISTORIC ASSET DESCRIPTION
The church stands facing the road where there are low stone walls surmounted by railings and large stone gate piers.
The church
1899-1900 by Sankey, Cubbon & Cubbon of Manchester. Of coursed and squared sandstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, tracery and banding, slate roofs with red ridge-tiles. South-West tower with a stone spire and clasping buttresses with gabled terminations which frame short pinnacles. Louvred bell-openings beneath gables. Large West window with Decorated style tracery, door below with a gabled head flanked by lancets. The sides have short stepped buttresses and large three-light windows with Decorated style tracery. Wheel window in the E face.
The School
Early C20 school immediately behind the church. Of brick with a deep slate roof and a pyramidal cupola. The hall has large flat-headed dormers and a half-hipped roof to the gable end where a central arched window is flanked by flat-headed windows. Single-storey entrance range.
Ref: Building File, Stockport Library.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE/CRITERIA DECISION
United Reformed Church of architectural and local historic interest which is a local landmark. Former school of associational interest and with group value with the former.
HISTORIC ASSET DESCRIPTION
The church stands facing the road where there are low stone walls surmounted by railings and large stone gate piers.
The church
1899-1900 by Sankey, Cubbon & Cubbon of Manchester. Of coursed and squared sandstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, tracery and banding, slate roofs with red ridge-tiles. South-West tower with a stone spire and clasping buttresses with gabled terminations which frame short pinnacles. Louvred bell-openings beneath gables. Large West window with Decorated style tracery, door below with a gabled head flanked by lancets. The sides have short stepped buttresses and large three-light windows with Decorated style tracery. Wheel window in the E face.
The School
Early C20 school immediately behind the church. Of brick with a deep slate roof and a pyramidal cupola. The hall has large flat-headed dormers and a half-hipped roof to the gable end where a central arched window is flanked by flat-headed windows. Single-storey entrance range.
Ref: Building File, Stockport Library.
