Church of St Mary, Hulme

Church of St Mary, Upper Moss Lane, Hulme, Manchester

The Church of St Mary, Upper Moss Lane, Hulme, Manchester is an Gothic Revival church by J. S. Crowther built in 1853–58. It was designated a Grade II* listed building on 3 October 1974.^[1]

The church is of "coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings (and a) slate roof". ^[1] It is in Early C14 Geometrical style,^[1] following "Lincolnshire exemplars".

The soaring spire, 241 feet (73 m) high, making it the 18th tallest church in the United Kingdom, is one of south Manchester's major landmarks. Pevsner records that the church has "stood through two complete cycles of urban decay, dereliction, destruction and renewal, standing alone amid utter desolation in the 1960s and again in the 1990s". It has now been converted into flats, its interior "horribly divided".^[2]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} http://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-457778-church-of-st-mary-manchester
2. ^ Hartwell, Hyde & Pevsner 2004, pp. 451–452

References

• Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South East, The Buildings of England, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10583-5 

Coordinates: 53°27′41″N 2°15′06″W / 53.4613°N 2.2516°W / 53.4613; -2.2516