Church of St George, Chester Road, Hulme
Church of St George | |
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Location | |
Location | Chester Road, Hulme, Manchester |
Geographic coordinates | 53°28′20″N 2°15′33″W / 53.4721°N 2.2593°W |
Architecture | |
Architect(s) | Francis Goodwin |
Groundbreaking | 1826 |
Completed | 1828 |
Construction cost | £15,000 |
The Church of St George, Chester Road,
The church was a
Drawing from Pevsner, the English Heritage inspectors who listed the building in 1974, without an internal inspection, stated that the interior was "reported as having: galleries; Perpendicular arcades; [and a] wall monument to The Hon. George Berkeley Molyneux (d.1841), by Edward Physick, in form of soldier mourning beside urn."[1]
A declining inner-city population in the post-war period, combined with the increasing isolation of the church caused by major road construction in its vicinity, led to St George's closure in 1984.[3] The last Rector Revd Derek Seber worked with Brian Redhead to try to find a long term use for the building including as a museum for Rolls-Royce and as a Museum of Sport . The transformation into such was planned under the then governments Community Programme offering skill training in conservation and building skills. A change in policy brought this initiative to an end. There followed a "twenty-year search for a use which would preserve the interior … proved fruitless and the building was converted to flats (in) 2000–2. The interior can no longer be read as a whole."[2] In 2015, the flat occupying the church tower was on the market for £1 million.[4]
See also
- Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Listed buildings in Manchester-M15
- List of churches in Greater Manchester
- List of works by Francis Goodwin
- List of works by J. S. Crowther
- List of churches dedicated to St. George
References
- ^ a b Historic England, "Church of St George, Manchester (1208640)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 August 2012
- ^ ISBN 0-300-10583-5.
- ^ "St. George's Church – Hulme". A Manchester View. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ "Dream Home: The £1m nine-floor flat in former Castlefield church which overlooks Manchester city centre". Manchester Evening News. 4 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015.