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St Mark's Church lies between Redhouse Lane and Stockport Road. It serves the joint parish of Bredbury and Woodley. It is a grade II listed building. Link

It was built 1847-8 by Shellard for the Church Commissioners with dressed stone, ashlar and slate roofs. It has a 3-sided gallery plan with small chancel and a west tower flanked by entrance bays. There is a 5-bay nave and aisles without clerestory. Projecting stone plinth, sill band, eaves band, coped parapet and coped gables with octagonal corner pinnacles. Each bay has paired lancets with colonnettes and a weathered gableted buttress (angled at corners).

The 5-stage tower has set-back buttresses which are transformed at the fifth stage in octagonal corner columns to rise as ornate pinnacles. There is a clock in the third stage and 2-light belfry openings with clock and parapet above.

Church website: Link