OS grid reference SJ 691,562 Denomination Anglican Dedication Saint Barnabas Phone +44 1270 212418 | Country England Website St Barnabas, Crewe Opened 1886 Architect Sharpe, Paley and Austin | |
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Location West Street, Crewe, Cheshire Address West Street, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 3HX, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar St Mark's Church - Antrobus, All Saints Church - Scholar G, All Saints' Church - Weston, St John the Evangelist's Church, St Philip's Church - Hassall G | ||
St Barnabas' Church is 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. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
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History
The church was built in 1884–85 to a design by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin, and was paid for by the London and North Western Railway, being built near to its workshops. The church provided seating for 500 people at an estimated cost of £4,000 (equivalent to £390,000 in 2015).
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.
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". 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. The two-manual organ was built in 1887 by Wadsworth, and extended in 1957 by J. W. Walker.