St Alban's Church, Macclesfield
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| St Alban's Church, Macclesfield | |
West front of St Alban's Church, Macclesfield |
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| Basic information | |
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| Location | Macclesfield, Cheshire, England |
| Geographic coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| District | Diocese of Shrewsbury |
| Ecclesiastical status | Parish church |
| Architectural description | |
| Architect(s) | A. G. Pugin |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| Year completed | 1841 |
| Construction cost | c. £8,000[1] |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Stone with Welsh slate roof |
St Alban's Church, Macclesfield is in Chester Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ912736). It is a Grade II* listed building. It was designed by A. G. Pugin and is described as a "church of exceptional interest among the works of this major architect".[2]
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[edit] 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.[1]
[edit] Structure
The church is built in 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 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.[2] The aisles have five-light windows and in the clerestory are ten closely set two-light windows. The east window has seven lights.[1]
[edit] Fittings and furniture
In the church the piers carrying the arcade are very slender.[1] At the entrance to the tower, the chancel, and the chapel are tall, painted Perpendicular arches. In the tower are the organ and the choir gallery. The chancel arch contains a rood screen. The chancel has a coloured tile floor, a sedilia in the south wall, and an ornate altar piece with a statue in an aedicule over the tabernacle and 12 figures of saints on each side of it. The altarpiece of the chapel consists of a statue in a niche flanked by panels depicting scenes from the life of Mary. Another altar is at the east end of the north aisle. The pulpit was added in 1850 by E. W. Pugin.[2] The stained glass in the east window is by Warrington.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e Pevsner, Nikolaus; Edward Hubbard [1971] (2003). The Buildings of England: Cheshire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 267–268. ISBN 0 300 09588 0.
- ^ a b c Images of England: Church of St Alban, Macclesfield. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2008-02-03.
