Building record 15827/1 - Church of St. Barnabas, West Street, Crewe

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56706 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Parish Church, 1885 (Pevsner), by Austin and Paley for London and North Western Railway. Brown brick with red tile roof, three bay nave, single bay chancel. Projecting weathered plinth, moulded sill band. Terra cotta windows in Perpendicular style with hood moulds and leaded lights, those to the nave under gables with apex timber framing. The large east chancel window has stained glass dating from 1901. Perpendicular flat headed door openings in terracotta. Gables framed with moulded rafters.

Interior: Spacious side aisles formed by treble arcade of moulded terra cotta carried on sandstone piers without caps. The chancel is the width of the nave between piers and is fronted by a "U" shaped open timber screen of turned posts and spandrel tracery which contains the choir. The carved reredos has elaborate cornice, with brattishing, flanked by high level panelling with memorial inscriptions. A heavily carved gothic pulpit fronts the choir screen north. There is low panelling to the aisle walls and a glazed screen across west nave entrance forming baptistery. Continuous chancel-nave ceiling has moulded timbers forming panels. Trusses have braced tie beams and three vertical posts each.

<2> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.309-310 (Book). SCH7059.

Built 1885-6 by Paley and Austin for the London and North Western Railway. Full interior and exterior description.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1896-1898, Ordnance Survey First Revision County Series (Epoch 2) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire, SJ6956, 1898 (Maps and Plans). SCH3848.

First depicted on this map.