St Philip's Church, Alderley Edge

St Philip’s Church stands in the village of Alderley Edge in Cheshire. The building is made of hammer-dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof laid in three-coloured bands. Nikolaus Pevsner called it “large, ambitious, and unmistakably prosperous-looking.” The church has a six-bay nave with north and south aisles, a three-bay chancel, a hexagonal vestry, and a southwest tower topped by a spire. The tower rises in four stages with buttresses and the spire has three tiers of lucarnes. The church was designed by J. S. Crowther, his first independent work. The nave, south aisle and chancel were built in 1851–52. In 1856–57 the north aisle, an extra western bay and a south steeple were added. A vestry designed by F. P. Oakley was added in 1903. Inside, the carved reredos of 1903 shows the Last Supper. The choir stalls, pulpit and organ screen, all from 1907, were designed by Percy Worthington. The south aisle holds a stained glass window made by Morris & Co. in 1873. Figures in the window were designed by Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. Elsewhere are windows by Powells from 1933 to 1935. The three-manual organ was built by Wadsworth of Manchester and rebuilt in 1962 by Jardine and Company of Manchester.