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St Saviour's Church, Ringley 
St Saviour's Church, Ringley, from the southwestLocation in Greater Manchester
St Saviour's Church, RingleyCoordinates: 53°32′37″N 2°21′25″W / 53.5436°N 2.3570°W OS grid reference SD 764 052 Location Kearsley, Greater Manchester Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Saviour, Ringley History Founded 1625 Founder(s) Nathan Walworth Consecrated 10 June 1854 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 31 May 1966 Architect(s) Charles Barry,
Sharpe and PaleyArchitectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1850 Completed 1854 Specifications Materials Stone Administration Parish Stoneclough Deanery Bolton Archdeaconry Bolton Diocese Manchester Province York Clergy Rector Revd Carol Helen Pharaoh St Saviour's Church, Ringley, is in Kearsley, near Bolton, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Bolton, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester. Its benefice is united with those of St Peter, Farnworth, St John the Evangelist, Farnworth, and Holy Trinity, Prestolee.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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History
The first church was built in 1625. It was replaced in 1826 by a church designed by Charles Barry. In 1850–54 this church was demolished, other than its tower, and a new church was built in a position further back from the road, leaving the tower isolated.[3] The new church was designed by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley.[3] It is a commissioners' church, a grant of £200 having been provided by the Church Building Commissioners towards the cost of its construction.[4] Its total cost was £2.500 (£170,000 as of 2011),[5] of which £500 was given by the 13th Earl of Derby. The church was consecrated on 10 June 1854 by the Bishop of Manchester.[6]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in stone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a north porch, and a chancel with a south vestry. At the southwest corner is an octagonal turret. The turret has a gabled buttress over which are lancet bell openings, a cornice, and a spire. In the west end is a doorway over which are three tall two-light windows.[2]
Interior
Some of the fittings were moved from the old church. These include the chancel rails in rococo style, and a communion table in the north chapel dated 1654. The stained glass in the north side of the chancel are from the 17th century. Later fittings include a reredos and sedilia in alabaster dating from 1879 containing mosaic and statues, a rood beam with figures from 1925, and an altar with a canopy in a chapel at the northwest of the church dating from 1921. Also in the church are monuments to the memory of Matthew Fletcher, owner of the Wet Earth Colliery who died in 1808, and his nephew Ellis Fletcher who died in 1834.[3]
Separate tower
Standing in an isolated position by the road is the tower from the original church.[7] A plaque above the door refers to its building in 1625. Another plaque refers to the addition of a vestry in 1726, and the church's rebuilding in 1826. The tower is in three stages, with entrances on the lowest stage, some of which are blocked. In the middle and upper stages are three-light mullioned windows, and above these in the top stage is a clock face on each side. Over these is a cornice and an embattled parapet with a pinnacle at each corner. The tower is a Grade II listed building.[7]
See also
- List of works by Sharpe and Paley
- List of Commissioners' churches in Northeast and Northwest England
References
- ^ St Saviour, Ringley, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/ringley-st-saviour/, retrieved 7 August 2011
- ^ a b "Church of St Saviour, Ringley", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1067295, retrieved 7 August 2011
- ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 584–585, ISBN 0 300 10583 5
- ^ Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 335, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 225–226
- ^ a b "Tower to former church approximately 7 metres to west of Church of St Saviour, Ringley", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1356797, retrieved 7 August 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Greater Manchester
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Religious buildings completed in 1854
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Anglican Diocese of Manchester
- Sharpe and Paley buildings
- Commissioners' churches
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