The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Manchester (now)
Parish church
Middleton has, after the collegiate church in Manchester which later became the cathedral, the most significant survival of a medieval church in Greater Manchester. It consists of a pair of through arcades with clerestory, and a W tower heightened by a curious wooden bellcote probably around 1667, when new bells are recorded as being hung. The church's main interest is its heraldic rood screen, and stained glass commemorating archers of the Battle of Flodden Field, but also contains significant Romanesque fragments built into the late medieval structure.