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All Saints Church, Marple 
All Saints Church, MarpleLocation in Greater Manchester
All Saints Church, MarpleCoordinates: 53°23′18″N 2°03′34″W / 53.3883°N 2.0594°W OS grid reference SJ 962 878 Location Marple, Greater Manchester Country England Denomination Anglican Website All Saints, Marple History Dedication All Saints Consecrated 30 June 1880 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 11 October 1985 Architect(s) J. Medland Taylor and
Henry TaylorArchitectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1880 Construction cost £6,056 Specifications Materials Stone, tiled roof Administration Parish Marple, All Saints Deanery Chadkirk Archdeaconry Macclesfield Diocese Chester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev Ian Parkinson Curate(s) Bruce Perrin Pastor(s) Bruce Perrin Laity Reader Keith Frost, Roger Howarth, Libby Leete, Martin Palmer, Nadine Parkinson, Bev Playle,
Liz Shercliff and Dennis WatsonChurchwarden(s) Gill Hale, Nev Phillips Parish administrator David Waterston All Saints Church, Marple, is in the town of Marple, Greater Manchester, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[1] In the churchyard is the tower of an earlier church. This is also listed Grade II.[2] The church is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Chadkirk.[3]
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History
The first church on the site was a small timber-framed building erected in the second half of the 16th century.[4] The first recorded service took place in 1588.[5] In 1803 the building was in a ruinous condition and it was decided that a new church should be built. In 1808 Robert Goldsmith was appointed as architect and the church was completed in 1811 at a cost of £4,000 (£220,000 as of 2011).[6] A major financial contributor to the building of the church was Samuel Oldknow, a local cotton manufacturer. In 1816 a peal of bells arrived and in 1826 an organ was installed. By the 1870s the church was too small for the congregation and the building was unsuitable for expansion so it was decided that a new church should be built.[7] The new church was built 30m to the south of the old church.[5] J. Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor were appointed as architects and the church cost £6,056 (£450,000 as of 2011).[6] It was consecrated on 30 June 1880. In the following years some services were still held in the old church but its condition deteriorated and by 1964 it was considered to be dangerous and it was demolished. The tower was strengthened and the bells re-hung in it, making it a free-standing bell-tower.[7]
Architecture
Tower
The separate tower is in four stages with string courses between the stages. At the west is a door with a rusticated surround and a two-light window. In the third stage is a clock face. Above this are lancet bell openings. The parapet has plain pilasters and square pinnacles.[2]
Inside the tower are memorials. Pevsner considers that the best is a tablet by John Flaxman in memory of Rev. Kelsall Prescot, who died in 1823, showing him standing and instructing boys. The monument to Samuel Oldknow, who died in 1828, is by Francis Legatt Chantrey, but Pevsner considers it to be disappointing. A monument to Elizabeth Isherwood, who died in 1835, is by Manning and shows a woman kneeling by an urn. Other monuments are to Nathaniel Wright who died in 1818, showing a cherub with an extinguished torch, and to John Clayton who died in 1848 and shows a standing woman with a lamp and a torch.[8]
Church
The church is built in stone with a patterned tiled roof. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, and a two-bay chancel. At the east end is a five-light window and at the west end is a rose window.[1]
In the church the chandelier and font were removed from the old church. Also in the church are memorials to the Bradshaw-Isherwood family.[5] The organ was built by Conacher and Wadsworth[9] and extended by Walker in 1972.[10] The ring consists of eight bells. Six of these, which came from Stockport parish church in 1816, were cast by Rudhall of Gloucester in 1731. The other two bells are by John Taylor and Company and are dated 1963.[4][11] The parish registers date from 1655.[4]
External features
The lych gate dated 1893 is listed Grade II.[12] Also listed Grade II are a stable and coach house from the early 19th century erected for the use of the owner of Marple Hall when visiting the church,[13] and the adjacent hearse house, also dating from the early 19th century.[14]
Gallery
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The stables (left) and the coach house (right) with the tower of the old church in the background
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The tower of the old church with the coach house in the foreground
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The gate to the old church
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The lych gate to All Saints' Church from Church Lane
See also
References
- ^ a b "New Church of All Saints, Marple", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1260309, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ a b "Remains of Church of All Saints, Marple", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1241882, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ All Saints, Marple, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/marple-all-saints/, retrieved 10 September 2009
- ^ a b c Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 228–229
- ^ a b c History of All Saints', All Saints' Church, Marple, http://www.allsaintsmarple.co.uk/ResourcesLinks/MarpleandtheChurch/History/tabid/2302/language/en-US/Default.aspx, retrieved 18 December 2007
- ^ a b UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ a b Hague, J. E. (1980), All Saints, Marple Building Centenary 1880-1980, All Saints' Church, Marple, http://www.marpleparish.co.uk/Parish/centenary.pdf, retrieved 18 December 2007
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 276, ISBN 0-300-09588-0
- ^ Marple All Saints (N01936), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N01936, retrieved 11 August 2008
- ^ Marple All Saints (J00082), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=J00082, retrieved 11 August 2008
- ^ Marple All Saints, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=marple&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=MARPLE, retrieved 11 August 2008
- ^ "Lychgate to Church of All Saints, Marple", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1241863, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ "Stabling northwest of tower of All Saints Church, Marple", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1241863, retrieved 18 May 2011
- ^ "Hearse House northwest of tower of All Saints Church, Marple", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1260259, retrieved 18 May 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in Greater Manchester
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Buildings and structures completed in 1880
- 19th-century church buildings
- Religious organizations established in the 1580s
- Diocese of Chester
- 16th-century Church of England church buildings
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