Christ Church, Alsager
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Christ Church, Alsager, west end
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 Christ Church, Alsager
Location in Cheshire
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| Coordinates: 53°05′52″N 2°19′00″W / 53.0978°N 2.3168°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 789 556 |
| Location | Alsager, Cheshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | www.christchurchalsager.uk |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II* |
| Designated | 26 March 1987 |
| Architect(s) | Thomas Stringer |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Georgian |
| Groundbreaking | 1789 |
| Completed | 1790 |
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| Materials | Ashlar yellow Keuper sandstone |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Christ Church, Alsager |
| Deanery | Congleton |
| Archdeaconry | Macclesfield |
| Diocese | Chester |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Rev Toby May |
| Laity | |
| Churchwarden(s) | Geoff Chatterley, Janice Mills |
| Parish administrator | Debbie Preston |
Christ Church Alsager is in the town of Alsager, Cheshire, England. Its mission is to love God and to love others. Christ Church Alsager provides activities for all ages including children, youth and the elderly, as well as worship services on Sundays and midweek, weddings, baptisms and funerals. More information about all of these can be found on its website at www.christchurchalsager.uk
It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Congleton.
The church was built in 1789–90 at the expense of three "Ladies of the Manor of Alsager", Mary, Margaret and Judith Alsager, to a design by Thomas Stringer. It was a chapel of ease to St Bertoline's Church, Barthomley, and became a parish church in 1946. To celebrate the centenary of the church a new organ was acquired and dedicated in 1889.
The church is built in ashlar yellow Keuper sandstone in Georgian style. Its plan consists of a west tower, a six-bay nave and a three-bay chancel with an apse. At the sides of the west door are Tuscan demi-columns supporting a frieze and a pediment which has an acroterion block at its top. Above this the tower has a clock stage with a clock face on each side, and a belfry stage with louvred bell-openings on each side. At the top of the tower is a dentilled cornice and a balustrade. The windows at the sides of the church are round-headed. The bays are separated by giant pilasters.
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