List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CORPUS CHRISTI BASILICA
List entry Number: 1270661
Location
CORPUS CHRISTI BASILICA, VARLEY STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
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National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 06-Jun-1994
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 457782
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8599 VARLEY STREET, Miles Platting
698-1/15/757 (North East side)
Corpus Christi Basilica
II
Church. c.1906, by W.T.Gunson. Red brick with sandstone
dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof. Italian Romanesque
style. Nave with north and south aisles, chancel with apsidal
sanctuary, south-west tower (incomplete). Large west front
formed by gable of nave with tower to same height, with corner
pilasters, string-courses, stone bands to the upper portion.
The gable has a giant blank arch with moulded and banded head,
containing a gabled portal with round-headed doorway which has
a splayed reveal with triple shafts and banded head, and
recessed double doors with traceried tympanum; a band of 6
tall round-headed lancets; and a semi-circular window filling
the head of the arch, with a-stylar reticulated tracery and a
statue in a projected canopied niche. the gable has another
niche with a statue. To the right, the base of the tower has a
projected apsidal baptistery which has a continuous arcade of
round-headed windows with cushion-capital shafts, and a
shallow semi-conical roof; and the 2 upper stages have pairs
of round-headed lancets, the upper pair louvred. The
right-hand side of the tower has a portal like that at the
front but simpler. The 6-bay aisles have continuous
blank-arcading at ground floor level, pilaster buttresses and
pairs of round-headed lancets, and stone bracketed eaves; the
nave has brick semi-columns with pedestals and carved stone
capitals, and windows and eaves like the aisles; and the apse
has a high-set arcade of small round-headed windows. Interior:
aisle arcades of moulded round-headed arches on columns with
large stone cushion capitals all elaborately carved in
Romanesque style; very large round-headed chancel arch with
coupled shafts; barrel-vaulted roof with simple semi-circular
trusses.
Listing NGR: SJ8591399546
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National Grid Reference: SJ 85913 99546
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