St Philip's Church, Hassall Green

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St Philip's Church, Hassall Green
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St Philip's Church, Hassall Green
Location in Cheshire
53°07′15″N2°20′01″W / 53.1208°N 2.3336°W / 53.1208; -2.3336
LocationNew Inn Lane,
Hassall Green, Cheshire
CountryEngland
Denomination Anglican
Website St Philip, Hassall Green
History
Dedication Saint Philip
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architectural type Tin tabernacle
Specifications
Materials Corrugated galvanised iron
Administration
Province York
Diocese Chester
Archdeaconry Macclesfield
Deanery Congleton
Parish Wheelock
Clergy
Vicar(s) Vacant

St Philip's Church is in New Inn Lane, Hassall Green, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican church in the parish of Wheelock, the benefice of Sandbach Heath with Wheelock, the deanery of Congleton, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester. The other churches in the benefice are St John the Evangelist, Sandbach Heath, and Christ Church, Wheelock. [1] Being a prefabricated building constructed in corrugated galvanised iron, it is popularly referred to as a tin tabernacle. [2]

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History

The building originally stood in Crewe Road, Alsager, where it was erected in the early 1880s. In 1894 the construction of the permanent Church of St Mary Magdalene started. [3] The tin tabernacle was sold for £150 (equivalent to £18,000in 2021), [4] and moved to Hassall Green the following year. [2]

Architecture

The church is painted pink with white bargeboards. The authors of the Buildings of England series describe it as a "candyfloss-pink tin tabernacle". [2] Its plan consists of a three-bay nave, a short chancel at a lower level, and a north vestry. Along the sides of the church are windows containing Y-tracery, and the east window in the chancel consists of stepped lancets. On the west gable is a bellcote surmounted by a slated broach spire. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 129, ISBN   978-0-300-17043-6
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