Are you looking to include another property to your current portfolio or simply just a unique living space offering a contemporary feel ...yet 18th century?

 

Time For Change... during the second half of the 20th century, victorian properties throughtout the uk disappeared  at a dizzy rate, to be replaced with featureless boxes.  happily, town, city planners and the public alike realised in time that these gems were worth preserving, saving many, among them the former anglican saint edmunds church in manchester.

 

Welcome to the Saint Edmunds Church development in Whalley Range, Manchester, featuring 17 unique quirky living spaces transformed into chic duplex apartments, designed for 'individuals' looking for something different… with lots of exposed stone and big rooms in this sensitive conversion of a much-loved landmark.  This magnificent former Anglican Church dating back to 1881 is located approximately only five miles from the city centre adjacent to Alexandra Park, Whalley Range,  and is regarded as one of the most sought after leafy suburbs of South Manchester.  Today, Saint Edmunds Church represents seventeen stylish and inspirational individual living spaces conveying contemporary, sophisticated, duplex apartments... living at its very best. 

 

Henry E. Price, the first City Architect of Manchester designed and constructed Saint Edmunds in 1881.  More recently, it was last used as a congregational church over 20 years ago and narrowly escaped demolition in the 1980's. Today, Saint Edmunds is a grade II listed building which has been designed and transformed into lavish living spaces over a period of four years from an empty shell by Brickhouse Developments Ltd, specialists in architectural restoration and Nono Living, a design company offering contemporary lifestyle furnishings.

 

In 2006, Saint Edmunds achieved recognition as the best homes in the region amongst other property contenders in the annual M.E.N. [Manchester Evening News] Residential Property Awards, which was hosted by Channel 4 Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs.  Nono Living won this special award for their total commitment creating a stylish, inspirational interior design feature throughout Saint Edmunds whilst respecting the ecclesiastical features of the former Anglican Church.  This aspect of the project merited a difficult challenge for Nono Living whilst still creating seventeen comfortable environments and how best their interior design was 'entirely appropriate' to Saint Edmunds internal architecture features.

 

Saint Edmunds conversion into living spaces was carried out with great sensitivity and imagination upon ensuring its heritage as a landmark building will set to continue long into the furure.  Many of its original features have been sympathetically preserved and redeveloped - the stained-glass windows, external solid wooden entrance doors, beautiful arches and marble pillars - have all been rescued from the 20th century and  are juxtaposed with elements of stunning contemporary 21st design... low voltage lighting in most rooms providing a contemporary atmospheric feel in all the living spaces... special breathtaking architectural features being subtly highlighted with up lighters. 

 

The specification of the finishes is high with great use of materials and original features. Only the best materials have been used with traditional construction techniques to sympathetically restore this stunning listed building into 4 levels of glamorous apartments. Each space incorporates architectural features of the former church retaining its beautiful arches and marble pillars to enhance each living space. Care was taken to create and respect each individual space potential - high ceilings throughout the apartments are matched by generous floor spaces echoing the height and sharply pitched roofs of the original church and incorporating many decreet lavish architectural details.  The central church area is an impressive sight with the original stained glass window illuminating the central landing outside the individual apartments and the exposed wood of the roof trusses.

 

The developers of Saint Edmunds have truely taken a vision and a commitment to a quality living environment that few developers can command. Some of their challenges with this listed building was matching modern plumbing and power requirements with modern energy-saving measures - and all the while retaining as many original features as possible, such as the huge arch bay windows on the ground floor now preserved with double-glazed internal frames. The same bay windows and others throughtout Saint Edmunds echo the original features, flood the apartments with light, accentuating its pleasing proportions and careful blend of period and contemporary details.

 

Manchester City Council said of Saint Edmunds, “The church is a stone building with a steeply-pitched slate roof. Designed in the geometrical gothic style, it has paired clerestory windows with tracery. The building typifies the problem of overly large premises for modern use as a church, but it is of a quality which justifies an imaginative proposal.”  Brickhouse Developments Ltd and Nono Living have made that proposal.       

                 

THE PERFECT LIVING SPACE... INSPIRED DESIGN | IMPECCABLE PLANNING | contemporary APPEARANCE | IMMACULATE FITTING | SOFT MINIMALISM DECO MODERN GRACEFUL elegance | STUNNING PERIOD FEATURES | Sophisticated AND SOOTHING to the core

 

 

A  SPACE THAT WORKS For LIVING ... IN THE 21 ^ST CENTURY 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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