Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST CROSS (1139338)

SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. STRETTON ROAD (North Side) at Appleton Thorn. 6/19 Church of St Cross. II Church 1886 by Edmund Kirby at the expense of Piers Egerton Warburton (of Arley). Red sandstone; red tile roof; oak-framed north porch on sandstone plinth. Cruciform with 2-stage tower over crossing. Low hip-roofed transepts; 3-window aisleless nave; one-window chancel; baptistry as a canted bay window projecting from the west end. Rose window above baptistry; Geometrical east window; straight-headed reticulated north and south windows to nave and chancel. Interior: Cradle roof to nave and chancel; crossing arches have continuous mouldings with no capitals; organ in north transept; east window has glass of 1870; stone pulpit. "Better than one expects him [Edmund Kirby] to be": Pevsner and Hubbard. Listing NGR: SJ6377883854