CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, CLARENCE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386122
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, CLARENCE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386122
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, CLARENCE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, CLARENCE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82657 99812
Details
SALFORD
SJ89NW CLARENCE STREET
949-1/4/47 (North side)
Church of the Ascension
GV II
Anglican church. c1870. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Nave with
2 aisles, chancel with transeptual chapels and apsidal E end,
slightly higher than the nave. Early English style, with
robust, muscular detail.
EXTERIOR: western narthex with arched doorways each side, and
stepped arcading in high tumbled brick coping echoing the line
of its lean-to roof. W door in gabled porch projecting from
narthex, with lancets each side. Blind arcading corbelled out
above, and massive rose window with simplified tracery and
bands of decorative brickwork enriching the apex of the gable.
Lean-to aisles divided into 4 bays by buttresses, with
alternately triple lancets and paired plate traceried windows
over. Plate tracery with minimally expressed hoodmould in
western walls. Blocked window in lean-to porch to SE. Low
clerestory over divided by pilasters, each bay containing a
range of 5 squat lancet windows. Apsidal end of chancel
articulated with buttresses which carry squat shafts with
enriched stone capitals between paired windows, also divided
by shafts. Tiled sill-band with texts. Ornate moulded brick
eaves cornice, scalloped bands in slate roof with cross
finial. Transepts have single and paired windows with lunette
in E walls with terracotta dressings. Paired lancets each side
of S wall, stone rose window with simplified tracery in gable
apex and decorative brick banding and corbelling.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8265799812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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