St Alban's Church, Macclesfield

Coordinates: 53°15′36″N 2°08′02″W / 53.2600°N 2.1340°W / 53.2600; -2.1340
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St Alban's Church, Macclesfield
Shrewsbury
Clergy
Priest(s)Father Peter Burke

St Alban's Church in

A. W. N. Pugin and is described as a "church of exceptional interest among the works of this major architect".[1]

History

The church was designed in 1838 and built between 1839 and 1841. Some of the money needed to build it was given by the Earl of Shrewsbury; the total cost was about £8,000 (equivalent to £920,000 in 2023).[2]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is built in stone rubble with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave with a high clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a south chapel, a south porch, and a vestry in the northeast angle. Its style is Perpendicular. The tower is unfinished. Its west doorway is deeply moulded with a five-light window above it. Above this is an arched light flanked by statues in niches. The tower has clasping buttresses and a stair turret in the southeast angle.[1] The aisles have five-light windows and in the clerestory are ten closely set two-light windows. The east window has seven lights.[2]

Interior

In the church the

Gray & Davison and moved to St Alban's from St Michael's Church, Macclesfield, in 1885. It was rebuilt by the same firm in the 1910s.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Historic England, "Church of St Alban, Macclesfield (1206898)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 5 August 2012
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  3. ^ Macclesfield St. Alban, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 13 August 2008