Church in Cheshire, England
Alderley Edge Methodist Church | |
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Alderley Edge Methodist Church | |
Alderley Edge Methodist ChurchLocation in Cheshire | |
53°18′03″N 2°14′01″W / 53.3008°N 2.2337°W / 53.3008; -2.2337 | |
OS grid reference | SJ 845 782 |
Location | Chapel Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Methodist Church of Great Britain |
Membership | 95 (2013) |
Weekly attendance | 65 (2013) |
Website | Alderley Edge Methodist Church |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Heritage designation | Grade II |
Designated | 6 July 1984 |
Architect(s) | Hayley and Sons |
Architectural type | Church |
Style | Gothic Revival |
Completed | 1863 |
Specifications | |
Materials | Sandstone, slate roofs |
Administration | |
District | Manchester and Stockport |
Circuit | Alderley Edge and Knutsford |
Clergy | |
Minister(s) | Revd Ben Clowes |
Alderley Edge Methodist Church is in Chapel Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England. It is an active Methodist church. The church and its associated hall are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
History
The church and hall were built in 1863 to a design by Hayley and Sons. The interior of the church was re-ordered in the mid-1990s.
Architecture
The buildings are constructed in sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. The plan of the church consists of a nave with two side chapels, and a southwest steeple. The hall stands behind the church. The church front facing the road is expressed as two storeys. Both storeys contain a four-light window, the upper window being sharply pointed. The tower is in three stages with an entrance porch on its side and a broach spire with lucarnes on its summit. The windows are lancets, and the bell openings have two lights with louvres. Along the sides of the church are three gabled two-light windows. The chapel contains a rose window. The tracery in the windows is in Decorated style. The windows in the church hall are simpler in design. Inside the church is a west gallery, and a pulpit and lectern, both in pitch-pine. The two-manual organ was built in 1881 by A. Young and Sons, and renovated at a later date by Charles A. Smethurst .
See also
References
- ^ "Statistics for Mission:Circuit Membership Statistics Summary October 2013" (PDF). methodist.org.uk. Methodist Church in Britain.
- "Statistics for Mission:Circuit Attendance Statistics Summary October 2013" (PDF). methodist.org.uk. Methodist Church in Britain.
- Welcome, Alderley Edge Methodist Church, archived from the original on 16 January 2013, retrieved 12 March 2012
- ^ Historic England. "Alderley Edge Methodist Church and Hall (1276169)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) , Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 91, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
- About us, Alderley Edge Methodist Church, archived from the original on 20 July 2012, retrieved 12 March 2012
- Cheshire, Alderley Edge, Methodist Church (N02471), British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 12 March 2012