Listing Text:
MANCHESTER
SJ89SE SLADE LANE, Longsight
698-1/9/736 (West side)
Church of St Agnes
II
Also known as: Church of St Agnes HAMILTON ROAD Longsight.
Church. 1884-5, by Medland and Henry Taylor, with north aisle
added 1895; slightly altered. Speckled brick in English bond,
with red brick dressings and steeply-pitched red tiled roof.
Arts and Crafts style. Nave with south porch and canted-bay
west window, north aisle with apsidal west end and 2-storey
transept at east end, south chapel in the form of coupled
transepts to the nave and chancel, chancel with triangular
apse; and a roof bellcote. The nave, 4 bays with buttresses
and low eaves, has a gabled porch to the 1st bay with
2-centred arched doorway chamfered in 3 orders,
steeply-pitched roof carried down to low eaves; windows of 2,
3 and 3 lancet lights, and a gabled dormer in the roof, and
playfully-designed bellcote on the ridge with a lateral
pitched roof surmounted by a fleche; and the coupled gables of
the chapel have 2-light lancets. The west end is emphatically
asymmetrical, having a tall canted bay to the nave with tall
cusped lancets and hipped roof, one small lancet to the left
and 3 to the right, and to the left, projecting from the west
end of the aisle, a semicircular apse which has lancet windows
and a 2-centred arched doorway with hoodmould above carried
round. The north side of the aisle has three 3-light windows
of stepped lancet lights under tall gables, beyond these a
large red-brick gabled dormer half-way up the slope, with a
window of 3 cusped lights, and at the east end 2-storeyed
transept. The triangular apse to the chancel has a foundation
stone dated July 1884, and in each of its 2 sides two 2-light
windows with cusped lights. Interior: very fine deeply
arch-braced kingpost roof with wind-braced purlins, common
rafters with collars, and diagonal roof boarding; 3-bay aisle
arcade with short cylindrical piers and stepped 2-centred
arches of brick (openings now filled with C20 glazed screens),
and aisle (now church hall) with exposed wooden gable roofs;
2-centred chancel arch with polychrome voussoirs, on short
quatrefoil piers; chancel with 2-bay south arcade of 2-centred
brick arches (the centre open and Y-shaped); baptistry in
canted apse at west end of nave.
Listing NGR: SJ8695994860 |
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