St. Elizabeth's Church, Ashley

St Elizabeth's Church, Ashley
St Elizabeth's Church, Ashley Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°21′20″N 2°20′37″W / 53.3556°N 2.3435°W / 53.3556; -2.3435
OS grid reference	SJ 772 844
Location	Ashley Road, Ashley, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Elizabeth, Ashley
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	20 September 1984
Architect(s)	Wilbraham Egerton
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1880
Specifications
Materials	Brick and terracotta Tiled roofs
Administration
Parish	St Elizabeth, Ashley
Deanery	Bowdon
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Elizabeth Jane Holden Lane

St Elizabeth's Church is on Ashley Road in the village of Ashley, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Bowdon, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. Its benefice is combined with that of St Peter, Hale. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

The church was built in 1880 as a chapel of ease to St Mary, Bowdon, and became a parish in its own right the following year. It was designed by Wilbraham Egerton, who was later to become the 1st Earl Egerton.

St Elizabeth's is constructed in red brick and red terracotta, and has a red tiled roof. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave, a chancel, north and south transepts, a northeast vestry, and a southwest porch. On the west gable is a stone bellcote. The windows in the nave contain Perpendicular tracery, while those in the transepts and the east window have Decorated tracery. The chancel windows are spherical triangles. At the west end of the church are three lancet windows with trefoil heads between which are colonnettes, and above them is a trefoil rose window. On the bellcote are gargoyles.