St Philip's Church, Hassall Green

St Philip's Church, Hassall Green
St Philip's Church, Hassall Green, from the north
St Philip's Church, Hassall Green Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°07′15″N 2°20′01″W / 53.1208°N 2.3336°W
Location	New Inn Lane, Hassall Green, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Philip, Hassall Green
History
Dedication	Saint Philip
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architectural type	Tin tabernacle
Specifications
Materials	Corrugated galvanised iron
Administration
Parish	Wheelock
Deanery	Congleton
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Vicar(s)	Revd Gill Stanning

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]

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 £16,000 in 2015),^[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]

References

1. St Philip, Hassall Green, Church of England, retrieved 28 March 2012
2. 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
3. The Building: History, St Mary's Church, Alsager, retrieved 28 March 2012
4. UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.