St Clement's Church, Ordsall

St Clement's Church, Ordsall

St Clement's Church, Ordsall, from the northwest
St Clement's Church, Ordsall
Location in Greater Manchester
Coordinates: 53°28′21″N 2°16′34″W / 53.4724°N 2.2760°W / 53.4724; -2.2760
OS grid reference SJ 818,973
Location Groves Avenue, Ordsall, Salford, Greater Manchester
Country England
Denomination Anglican
Website St Clement, Ordsall
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 18 January 1980
Architect(s) Paley and Austin
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1877
Completed 1878
Administration
Parish Ordall and Salford Quays
Deanery Salford
Archdeaconry Salford
Diocese Manchester
Province York
Clergy
Priest(s) Revd Sandra Kearney[1]

St Clement's Church is a Grade II listed building on Hulton Street, Ordsall, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester.

History

The church was built between 1877 and 1878, and was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin[2] at a cost of £9,000 (£780,000 in 2016[3]). The land for the church was given by Lord Egerton, who also paid for the church and its parsonage.[4] The church closed in the 1980s, but re-opened around 2005.[5]

The Anglican[5] parish church[2] is located on Groves Avenue,[1] off Hulton Street, Ordsall, Salford, Greater Manchester.[2] It can be seen from the Eccles line of the Manchester Metrolink.[1] It is in the deanery of Salford, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester.[5] Its current minister is Rev. Sandra Kearney.[1]

Architecture

St Clement's is constructed in red brick and terracotta and has a tiled roof. It is designed in a 13th-century gothic style. Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave with a clerestory, a chancel[2] and north and south aisles.[6] Above the chancel is a flèche with cladding in Westmorland slate. The nave and chancel are divided by buttresses across the aisles. Along the aisles are seven three-light windows. The clerestory contains round windows. The east end contains a five-light window, above which is an arch and gable with three stepped blind lancets, as well as heavy angle buttresses.[2] At the west end is an unusual gabled portal in moulded brick with a roundel in terracotta containing tracery.[4]

Inside the church the arcades are carried on round sandstone piers.[6] The chancel is floored with Doulton tiles, and on its walls are murals depicting religious scenes, also in Doulton tiles.[2] It also contains a tripartate sedilia.[6] The chancel is vaulted.[4] Part of the nave has been partitioned to form a meeting room.[2] The two-manual organ was built by Willis.[7]

It was designated as a Grade II listed building on 18 January 1980.[2]

It also has an associated community hall.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "St Clement's, Ordsall & Salford Quays". Salford Churches. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Historic England, "Church of St Clement, Salford (1386139)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 17 March 2015
  3. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2015), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  4. 1 2 3 Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012). The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin. Swindon: English Heritage. pp. 108, 230. ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "St Clement, Ordsall & Salford Quays, Ordsall, Salford". Church of England. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004). Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 635. ISBN 0-300-10583-5.
  7. ↑ "Lancashire (Manchester, Greater), Salford, St. Clement, Ordsall (N04362)". British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 15, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.