St George's Church Lychgate | Hearse House Roman Catholic Church of St Paul

St George's Church.

This Anglican Church is on the south side of Church St, Hyde, and it was consecrated on the 20 Oct 1832 by the Bishop of Chester, John Bird Sumner. In 1848 he became the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The church was founded as a chapel of ease to St Mary’s in the Market Place (St Mary the Virgin), Stockport. It was built in 1831-32 to a Gothic Revival style by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799-1861) and Charles Atkinson (no known relation). A grant of £4,788 was given towards its construction by the Church Commissioners. It became the parish church for the township of Hyde in 1843.

The church is of stone construction with a slate roof and the small chancel was added in 1882-83. It consists of a wide nave, a small chancel, and a tower which is surmounted by four pinnacles. The tower contains a clock and a peal of eight bells, the latter inscribed with the names of those who contributed to the cost.

St George’s Church is listed Grade II, List Entry No. 1068080.

Lychgate at St George’s Church, Church St, Hyde
This has a hipped slate roof supported by a timber frame standing on octagonal stone piers at each end of hammer-dressed stone side walls. The roof ridge is protected by pierced ridge tiles with small terminating finials and a central wrought-iron cross. The eaves beam is inscribed, ‘Erected by Thomas Ferns Handford, Fern Lee, Hyde, 1885.’, who was a retired cotton spinner.

The lychgate is listed Grade II, List Entry No. 1068081.

Hearse House at St George’s Church, Church St, Hyde
Built of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The gable facing the road has large double doors within a Tudor-arched surround with chamfered rustication and a keystone with skull and cross bones, dated 1841.

The hearse house is listed Grade II, List Entry No. 1356446.

St Paul's Church.

This church is on the east side of St Paul’s St, Hyde. The foundation stone was laid on the 20 May 1853 and it opened on the 21 Jun 1854. It was built in the Gothic Revival style and the architects were Weightman, Hadfield, and Goldie (George, Matthew Ellison, and John Grey) of Sheffield. The builders were Messrs F Robinson & Son. The chancel and lady chapel were built in 1899 and the architect was Edmund Kirby of Liverpool.

The church is built of coursed, rock-faced stone with a stone plinth, ashlar dressings, and a slate roof. The west elevation, facing the road, has a bellcote and the central buttress has a statue niche holding a late-20C fibreglass statue of St Paul, which is flanked on each side by a lancet window. Above the buttress there is a trefoil window. The wall along the road is built of stone with triangular coping stones. The east elevation has a large Gothic tracery window within a Reuleaux triangular stone frame. The chancel has double lancet windows and the lady chapel has a triple lancet window.

St Paul’s Church and Presbytery are listed Grade II, List Entry No. 1413253.

St Paul’s Church is part of the joint Parish of St Mary and St Paul in the diocese of Shrewsbury and St Mary’s Church is on Zetland St, Dukinfield. St Mary’s Church and its presbytery were erected in 1854-56 and the architects were Weightman, Hadfield, and Goldie.

St Mary's Church.