St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn

St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn
St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn
St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°21′01″N 2°32′44″W / 53.3503°N 2.5456°W / 53.3503; -2.5456
OS grid reference	SJ 638 838
Location	Appleton Thorn, Warrington, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Cross, Appleton Thorn
History
Dedication	Holy Cross
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	23 December 1983
Architect(s)	Edmund Kirby
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1886
Specifications
Capacity	100
Materials	Red sandstone, red tile roof
Administration
Parish	St Cross, Appleton Thorn
Deanery	Great Budworth
Archdeaconry	Chester
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd. Elaine Chegwin Hall

St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn is in the village of Appleton Thorn, Cheshire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.^[1] It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth. Its benefice is combined with that of St Matthew's Church, Stretton.^[2]

History

The church was built in 1886 to a design by Edmund Kirby^[1] at the expense of Rowland Egerton-Warburton of Arley Hall.^[3]

Architecture

It is built in red sandstone with a red tile roof,^[1] in Decorated style.^[4] Its plan is cruciform with a two-stage tower over the crossing. It has a three-window nave without aisles, a one-window chancel, an oak-framed north porch on a sandstone plinth, and a baptistry projecting from the west end. Above the baptistry is a rose window.^[1] The stained glass in the east window is by Harcourt M. Doyle, dated 1970, and that in the rose window is by Celtic Studios of Swansea, dated 1986.^[4] The organ was built in 1906 at a cost of £220 (£20,000 as of 2011),^[5] by E. Wadsworth.^[6]

Connections

The church has connections with the Royal Naval Association because during the Second World War a Royal Naval Air Service station, HMS Blackcap, was in the village. Its ensign hangs in the church.^[7]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Church of St Cross, Appleton", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1139338, retrieved 3 May 2011 
2. ^ St Cross, Appleton Thorn, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/appleton-thorn-st-cross/, retrieved 29 September 2009 
3. ^ Foster, Charles (1999), "The History of the House and the Family", in Albrighton, Tom, Arley Hall and Gardens, Cheshire, Norwich: Jarrold, p. 21 
4. ^ ^{a b} Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 628–629, ISBN 0-300-10910-5 
5. ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
6. ^ Appleton Thorn St. Cross, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D07793, retrieved 13 August 2008 
7. ^ St Cross Church, St Cross, Appleton Thorn, http://www.stcross.org.uk/, retrieved 24 March 2008