Church in Cheshire, England
St Barnabas' Church, Crewe St Barnabas' Church, Crewe
St Barnabas' Church, Crewe
Location in Cheshire
Coordinates : 53°06′07″N 2°27′46″W / 53.1020°N 2.4628°W / 53.1020; -2.4628 OS grid reference SJ 691,562 Location West Street, Crewe , Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Barnabas, Crewe Status Parish church Dedication Saint Barnabas Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 14 June 1984 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1886; 136 years ago (1886 ) Materials Brick and red terracotta Parish St Barnabas, Crewe Deanery Nantwich Archdeaconry Macclesfield Diocese Chester Province York Vicar(s) Revd Ralph Dover Powell
St Barnabas' Church is in West Street, Crewe , Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester .[1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building .[2]
History [ ] The church was built in 1884–85 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin , and was paid for by the London and North Western Railway , being built near to its workshops. The church provided seating for 500 people at an estimated cost of £4,000 (equivalent to £440,000 in 2020).[3] [4]
Architecture [ ] Exterior [ ] St Barnabas' is constructed in brick and red terracotta with red tiled roofs. The architectural style is Perpendicular . Its plan consists of a three-bay nave , north and south aisles , a single-bay chancel , and a southeast vestry. Towards the west end is a shingled flèche . On each side of the church are three cross-gables containing the aisle windows that are timbered at the apexes. The gables at the east and west ends of the church are also timbered.[2] [5]
Interior [ ] The authors of the Buildings of England [5] arcades consist of terracotta arches carried on pink sandstone piers . Between the nave and the chancel is an open timber screen. At the west end of the nave is a glazed screen forming a baptistry . The reredos and the pulpit are decorated with carving. In the seven-light east window is stained glass dated 1901.[2] [5] manual organ was built in 1887 by Wadsworth, and extended in 1957 by J. W. Walker .[6]
See also [ ]
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References [ ]
^ St Barnabas, Crewe Church of England , retrieved 7 October 2011 ^ a b c Historic England , "Church of St Barnabas, Crewe (1330053)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 7 October 2011 ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" , MeasuringWorth , retrieved 2 December 2021
^ Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin , Swindon: English Heritage , p. 235, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8 ^ a b c Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward ; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , pp. 309–310, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 ^ Cheshire, Crewe, St. Barnabas (H00010) British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 7 October 2011
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