Christ Church, Block Lane, Chadderton

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AT OLDHAM – The Right Rev Dr Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, laid the foundation stone of a new church at Chadderton, near Oldham, on Saturday afternoon. [Manchester Guardian 17 May 1870 page 6]

CHADDERTON - Yesterday, the Bishop of Manchester consecrated a new church to be called Christ’s Church at Chadderton, near Oldham. The cost of the edifice has been £5,000, of which £2,000 has yet to be subscribed. [Manchester Guardian 6 December 1870 page 4]

ICBS 07186: New Church. Grant application rejected. Church was already built when application made

LISTING TEXT - Built in 1870 by H. Ainley. Rock-faced stone with slate and copper roofs. Nave with clerestory, aisles, south-east tower and chancel. Gothic revival. Five-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth. Each bay has a weathered buttress and a 2-light window with geometrical tracery (and a door in the west bay). Circular and cusped clerestory windows. Coped gabled.  Four-stage castellated tower with angled weathered buttresses, door with colonnettes, cusped lancet windows, quatrefoil windows and two-light belfry openings and a square stair turret topped by a spirelet. Two-bay chancel with 5-light east window. Five-light west window.  Interior: chamfered nave arcade arches on clustered columns. Timber fittings. Stained glass. Mosaic walls and floor to chancel. Twentieth century ceiling conceals the nave roof structure.

Reference    Manchester Guardian 17 May 1870 page 6
Reference    Manchester Guardian 6 December 1870 page 4 CHECK