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© Mr Michael J. A. Smith
IoE Number:
440815
Location:
CHURCH OF ST MARY, HIGH STREET (north side)
CHEADLE AND BRAMHALL, STOCKPORT, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr Michael J. A. Smith
Date Photographed:
29 July 2001
Date listed:
24 March 1950
Date of last amendment:
24 March 1950
Grade
I
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SJ 88 NE CHEADLE CHURCH STREET
(west side)
Cheadle
5/26 Church of
St. Mary
(formerly listed
24.3.50 under High Street)
G.V. I
Church. South chapel 1530, nave 1541, tower 1520-40, chancel
1556-8 for Lady Catherine Buckley and porch dated 1634.
Major restoration of 1875-82 and vestry of 1877. Cloakroom
C20. Ashlar with stone slate roof. Nave with aisles,
clerestory, transeptal chapels, south porch, central west
tower and chancel with north vestry/organ chamber. 4-bay
nave and aisles with weathered plinth, weathered buttresses
which are angled at corners, and castellated nave parapet.
3-light C19 windows to bays 1 and 3, 4-light C16 double-
chamfered cavetto-moulded arched-light mullion window to bay
4. Porch in bay 2 has angled buttresses which terminate in
ornate paired pinnacles with grotesque heads. Moulded
surround to basket-arched door which has blind cusped arcade
above. Each bay has 2 3-light mullioned clerestory windows.
3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses, moulded bands, clock
in stage 2, 4-light belfry opening with hoodmould,
castellated parapet and grotesque gargoyles. The west door
and window are C19. 2-bay chancel with 2 3-light windows as
above but with arched lights under a square head and a
basket-arched lintel over priest's door. 5-light east window
(C19) with rectilinear tracery. Interior: 4-bay nave arcade
has double-chamfered arches on octagonal columns with
moulded bases and capitals. A 5th smaller bay at the east
marks the position of former rood loft, the door (which
still exists) being served by a rood gallery in the north
aisle. Braced oak camber-beam roof with gilded bosses;
similar enrichment to aisle roof. Chancel arch on half
columns, the north capital bearing a crudely carved head.
Part of rood screen was re-used in the chancel screen and
finely carved C16 oak parclose screens to Savage and
Brereton chapels. Monuments: chest tomb with 2 alabaster
Knights c.1460 and stone recumbent effigy of Sir Thomas
Brereton, 1673, on a tomb chest with shields. C11 cross.
G.V. and J.M. Chivers, The Parish Church of St. Mary,
1971.