St Alban's Church, Macclesfield
church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK
St Alban's Church in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, is a Roman Catholic parish church. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It was designed by A. W. N. Pugin and is described as a "church of exceptional interest among the works of this major architect".
History
The church was designed in 1838 and built between 1839 and 1841. Some of the money needed to build it was given by the Earl of Shrewsbury; the total cost was about £8,000 (equivalent to £720,000 in 2025).
Architecture
Exterior
The church is built in stone rubble with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Its plan consists of a west tower, a nave with a high clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a south chapel, a south porch, and a vestry in the northeast angle. Its style is Perpendicular. The tower is unfinished. Its west doorway is deeply moulded with a five-light window above it.
“St Alban's Church, Macclesfield” enters the record as church in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alban's, Church and Macclesfield can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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