Place of worship To Let
King Street, Dukinfield, SK16

The properties are to be sold by informal tender, with restrictions on future usage.

Full details including floor plans will follow in due course.

Please note that any interested party who wishes to offer will abide by the Rules of Purchase detailed in the brochure, if not then the offer will be dismissed in accordance with the vendors instruction and wishes.

Rules Of Purchase

The property being sold by formal tender means that all parties wishing to offer must provide proof of funds, proof of identification and a letter of statement outlining the plans that they have for the building and land before the offer is submitted. The property to be sold is subject to restrictive covenants. The Vendors of the property have the right to accept or refuse a sale to any party that do not fit the criteria.

The Property On Offer

The property on offer comprises two buildings and a large plot of land, the former Church and former Sunday School.
The Church itself provides tremendous potential for a wide range of uses (subject to planning permission and Listed Building Consent) and has a gross external area of approximately 6,522 sq.ft (606 sq.mt). It briefly comprises front entrance porch, nave with side passage aisles leading up to a raised chancel and sanctuary and with organ chamber off to the north. To the north and south sides there are additional accommodation rooms comprising vestries and chapel. It is understood that there is a small cellar which has a boiler but at the time of writing this has not been inspected.

The detached Hall occupies a gross external floor area of approximately 1,883 sq.ft (175 sq m) and comprises a meeting room, a kitchen and associated welfare facilities.

The site is raised above King Street and there is driveway access from King Street together with turning and parking.

Overview

Anglican parish church. 1889: designed by John Eaton & Sons of Ashton-under-Lyne. Red brick with stone and terracotta dressings and decorative detailing; Welsh slate roof with red cresting tiles. PLAN: nave of six bays with narrow aisles (not registered externally); internal transepts (that to N containing the organ); uninterrupted single-bay chancel with no aisles, and polygonally apsed sanctuary. W. Narthex, W bellcote; S baptistry (W bay of nave); SE vestry. EXTERIOR. W. Front, a well-managed composition. 3-bay narthex with parapet and regular triple lancets to each bay: central gable with coping; both ends of the narthex are canted with principal entrance to right (depressed doorway arch with blank arcaded tympanum under gable). At the angles (i.e. Between W and canted faces of the narthex) are two large buttresses which above the parapet become flying buttresses and connect with the W wall of nave where they receive polygonal turrets, and flank the large 5-light stepped lancet windows under superordinate arch with hood moulds. Nave with sprocketted roof; side walls: each bay with double lancets and continuous label/impost string course. Gabled transepts similarly treated. INTERIOR. Arcades with continuous hood moulds over square-section piers with demi-shafts to E and W only which support the inner order. Transverse arches to aisles set very low. Large and impressive canted, boarded roof to nave; principal over chancel rest on stone carbel shafts. Contemporary fittings of a high Victorian character with much punched tracery to choir stalls, reading desk, and polygonal pulpit (the latter- usually for the date - with Soundboard) altar table and reredos. Decorative tiling throughout.

A good example of a late - C19 church by a little-known architectural practice that did, however, contribute considerably to the townscape of the Ashton and environs, and was well versed in current architectural trends.

Listing NGR: SJ9405497533

Planning

There is potential for development of all or part of the site and building subject to the necessary consents.

All interested parties are advised to make their own enquiries directly to Tameside Council Planning Department.

Tenure

Believed to be freehold.

Possession

Vacant on completion site bought as is.

Notes

Lined and shaded site plans, site measurements are for purpose of illustration and identification only and must not be relied on as being wholly accurate.

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