St Mary, Prestwich
St Mary, Prestwich
The Church of St Mary the Virgin on Church Lane, Prestwich, is the Grade I ancient parish church of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, a Church of England church in the Diocese of Manchester. It is a different building from St Margaret, Prestwich (Holyrood), the Victorian chapel of ease on St Margaret’s Road, already researched separately.
- Location
- Prestwich, Greater Manchester
- Country
- England
- County
- Greater Manchester
- City / town
- Prestwich
- Address
- Church Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, M25 1AN
- Postcode
- M25 1AN
- Built
- Church on site from at least 1200; C15 tower; C16 nave and aisles; C19 chapels, porches and Paley and Austin chancel 1888–89
- Architect
- Paley and Austin (chancel, Wilton Chapel, organ chamber and choir vestry, 1888–89)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Mary
- Diocese
- Manchester
- Parish
- Prestwich
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Gothic, with Gothic Revival additions
- Materials
- Red sandstone with stone-slate roof
- Grid reference
- SD 811 036
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists the Church of St Mary (NHLE 1067252, listed 30 June 1966). The list records a church on the site from at least 1200; the earliest standing fabric is the fifteenth-century west tower; the nave and aisles are sixteenth-century; the south porch is of 1856; the Lever Chapel and Lady Chapel of 1874–75; the chancel, Wilton Chapel, organ chamber and choir vestry by Paley and Austin, 1888–89; and the north porch of 1895. The church is red sandstone with a stone-slate roof. Internally, tall octagonal piers carry a sixteenth-century coffered roof with carved bosses. The listing calls it a fine church of great historic importance as the ancient parish church of Prestwich-cum-Oldham. Pevsner described it as a major church.