St Barnabas' Church, Crewe

St Barnabas' Church, Crewe
St Barnabas' Church, Crewe
St Barnabas' Church, Crewe Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°06′07″N 2°27′46″W / 53.1020°N 2.4628°W / 53.1020; -2.4628
OS grid reference	SJ 691 562
Location	West Street, Crewe, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Barnabas, Crewe
History
Dedication	Saint Barnabas
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	14 June 1984
Architect(s)	Paley and Austin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1886
Specifications
Materials	Brick and red terracotta Red tiled roofs
Administration
Parish	St Barnabas, Crewe
Deanery	Nantwich
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Ralph Dover Powell

St Barnabas' Church, Crewe, is located in West Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.^[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.^[2]

History

The church was built in 1885–86 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin, and was paid for by the London and North Western Railway.^[3]

Architecture

Exterior

St Barnabas' is constructed in brick and red terracotta with red tiled roofs. The architectural style is Perpendicular. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave, north and south aisles, a single-bay chancel, and a southeast vestry. Towards the west end is a shingled flèche. On each side of the church are three cross-gables containing the aisle windows that are timbered at the apexes. The gables at the east and west ends of the church are also timbered.^[2][3]

Interior

The authors of the Buildings of England series describe the interior of the church as "noble — clear, spacious and open, without being in the least bleak".^[3] The arcades consist of terracotta arches carried on pink sandstone piers. Between the nave and the chancel is an open timber screen. At the west end of the nave is a glazed screen forming a baptistry. The reredos and the pulpit are decorated with carving. In the seven-light east window is stained glass dated 1901.^[2][3] The two-manual organ was built in 1887 by Wadsworth, and extended in 1957 by J. W. Walker.^[4]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin

References

1. ^ St Barnabas, Crewe, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/crewe-st-barnabas/, retrieved 7 October 2011 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Church of St Barnabas, Crewe (1330053). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 309–310, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
4. ^ Cheshire, Crewe, St. Barnabas (H00010), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=H00010, retrieved 7 October 2011