Church of St Cross, Clayton

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Coordinates: 53°29′00″N 2°10′55″W / 53.4834°N 2.1819°W / 53.4834; -2.1819
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Church of St Cross, Clayton
Manchester
DeaneryManchester North and East
BeneficeClayton St Cross with St Paul
Clergy
RectorFr. Chris Moore
Laity
Reader(s)Mark Robinson and David Onobanjo
Churchwarden(s)Janet Towell and Doris Marsland

The Church of St Cross,

grade II* listed building in 1963.[1]

The church is very tall, in Butterfield's trademark red brick, with blue brick and pale stone banding.

Middle Pointed.[2] To the south-west, the church has a high tower, "narrow and tall, with slender angle buttresses and a steep pyramidal roof of banded slate, and a gabled south porch with 2-centred arched doorway".[1]

The interior has lost most of its furnishings but remains "unmistakably Butterfield".

patron saints of the British Isles.[2]

The churchyard contains the war graves of seven soldiers of World War I and two of World War II.[3]

History

The area where St Cross is now used to be part of the parish of St Mary Droylsden. In the early 1860s, land was gifted to Revd. Charles Henry Lomax by Peter Hoare on which the parish church of St Cross was to be built. The renowned

Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield
was invited to draw up plans for this new church and construction began in 1862.

At the time of construction, Bishop

Prince Lee was in charge of Manchester Diocese. Lee, a lowchurchman
, did not take to the ornate decorative style of St Cross and initially refused to consecrate the parish church, despite the opening services happening in 1866.

Bishop James Fraser eventually consecrated the church in 1874.

Originally, St Cross was built without many stained glass windows. However, when the Church of St Peter, Oldham closed in 1970, the sixteen stained glass windows were gifted to St Cross, and now reside in the nave of the church.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b British Listed Buildings Online. "Church of St Cross, Ancoats and Clayton, Manchester". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
  2. ^ a b c d e Hartwell et al. 2004, p 362-3
  3. ^ [1] CWGC Cemetery Report, details from casualty record.
  4. ^ "History of St Cross". 13 June 2023.

References

  • Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South East, The Buildings of England, New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press,
    ISBN 0-300-10583-5

External links

Official website


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