St. Augustine's Church, Pendlebury
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St Augustine's Church
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| 53°30′14″N 2°11′31″W / 53.5038°N 2.192°WCoordinates: 53°30′14″N 2°11′31″W / 53.5038°N 2.192°W | |
| Location |
Pendlebury, Greater Manchester |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | Official website |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Augustine |
| Consecrated | May 1874 |
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| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Architect(s) | George Frederick Bodley |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1871 |
| Completed | 1874 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Red brick |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Swinton and Pendlebury |
| Deanery | Eccles |
| Archdeaconry | Salford |
| Diocese | Manchester |
| Province | York |
St. Augustine’s Church is an active Anglican church in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, England. Dedicated to St Augustine, it is part of the benefice of Swinton and Pendlebury along with St Peter's Church in Swinton and All Saints' Church in Wardley. The church is in the Eccles deanery, the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester. The church was granted Grade II* listed status in 1966 but has since been upgraded to Grade I.
Called the "Miners' Cathedral", due to its almost cathedralesque stature, in the heart of a one time coal-mining community, it was also sometimes locally called "Gussie's".
The church is situated on Bolton Road (A666) and has a connected primary school.
Manchester banker, Edward Stanley Heywood of Heywood's Bank commissioned G. F. Bodley to design the church in March 1870. Its foundation stone was laid in the following September and it was consecrated in May 1874. Heywood paid for its construction, decoration and furnishings. The church was constructed to the design of Bodley and Thomas Garner between 1871 and 1874. The cost, £3,300 (£280,000 in 2015) was largely borne by Heywood.
Bodley designed a bell tower for the south-east side, higher than the main roof, but it was not built.
The church is built of red brick and has clay tile roof and stone dressings. It was inspired by the Gothic cathedrals in Albi and Toulouse in France. Its nave and chancel occupy ten bays under a continuous roof. The church has a door at the west end, a porch on the south side and vestry on the north. The bays are separated by shallow weathered buttresses that terminate in triangular gablets above the coped parapet which has pierced quatrefoils above the chancel. The nave and chancel are differentiated by their windows. The nave has three-light windows below blank arches while the chancel has four-light windows with reticulated tracery. The east window between angled buttresses topped by crocketted pinnacles has seven lights decorated with flowing reticulated tracery. The west window has five lights.
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