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Your Story: Albion United Reformed Church: Stamford Street East, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire |
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Stain glass window at Albion Church
© Mary Whitehead |
On completion the Church was said to be the most beautiful Congregation Church building in England, mainly of Gothic design with glorious stained glass designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and installed by Wm. Morris. The entire structure is in stone, the inside, however is red sandstone. The Church is early perpendicular on the orthodox medieval cruciform plan of nave, aisles, transcepts, chancel, and seating a thousand. It is a restrained riot of stone screens, Dantzic oak wainscoting, teak and woodblock and encaustic tiled floors, hammer beam roofs, tracery-filled and angel-finished, the angels in the choir clasping – as they do in Manchester Cathedral – harp and trumpet, cymbals and hand-organ. The Burne Jones windows show the virtues and graces of the Christian character. There is also a magnificent Lewis organ.
Information taken from a booklet written by J.C.G. Binfeild M.A. Ph.D F.S.A, “The Dynamic of Granduar, Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne”. (Reprinted from Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Vol .85. 1988).
Words: Mary Whitehead B.A.(Hons)
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