Listed buildings in Whitefield, Greater Manchester
Whitefield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England and contains the area of Stand. It is unparished, and contains 14 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area is mainly residential, and the listed buildings include houses and associated structures, churches and related items, and two war memorials.
The house was altered later, including the front added in the 18th century. It is in brick, with two storeys, and it has a symmetrical front of four bays. On the front is a doorway with Tuscan half-columns, a fanlight with Gothicktracery, and an open pediment, and the windows are sashes.[2]
The farmhouse is in brick with a rendered front, two storeys with an attic, and three bays. The windows have brick mullions, some blocked, and others converted into casements. On the front is a 20th-century porch. Also on the house is a relief band with various decorations, and there are similar decorations on the right gable end.[3]
A brick house in Tudor Revival style, with stone dressings. It has a band between the storeys and mouldedcopings. There are two storeys, an asymmetrical plan, three gables, and mullioned windows.[8]
The gate piers at the entrance to the churchyard are in stone, with panels, and are surmounted by mouldedcast iron lamp standards. Between the piers are decorated cast iron gates.[10]
The rectory was converted from a farmhouse by Charles Barry, and is in Regency style. It is roughcast with a symmetrical front of three bays, and there is a recessed lower one-bay extension on the right. The windows on the ground floor are mullioned and transomed, and in the upper floor they are mullioned. On the front is a polygonal porch with a lead roof, and above the door is a fanlight.[12][13]
The church, designed by Alfred Waterhouse in Gothic Revival style, is in red brick with detailing in yellow and blue brick, and it has steep slate roofs. The building has a T-shaped plan with transepts, and in the west end is a rose window. Further buildings were added at the rear in 1889, including a schoolroom.[15][16]
The war memorial is in the churchyard of All Saints' Church, Stand. It consists of a tapered cruciform column on a stepped base in Portland stone. On the column is a bronze statue of The Winged Victory on a globe with a serpent, and at its base are wreathes and swags. On three sides of the column are bronze plaques with the names of those lost in the world wars, and on the fourth face is an inscription.[4][18]
The war memorial is in pale cream stone. It has an octagonal stepped base, a podium, and a moulded stepped plinth. On this is a cross with a chamfered foot, an octagonal tapering shaft, and a cross with tapering arms. On the front is a sword in relief and a wreath. On the base and the podium and inscriptions and the names of those lost in both world wars.[19]