Building Name

Kettleshulme Vicarage (Glebe House), Macclesfield Road, Kettleshulme

Date
1911 - 1912
Street
Macclesfield Road
District/Town
Kettleshulme
County/Country
Cheshire East, England
Architect
Work
New build
Status
private ownership

The parish of Saltersford-cum-Kettleshulme came under the jurisdiction of the vicar of Prestbury. The church was that of St John the Baptist, commonly known as Jenkin Chapel, situated at Saltersford, a remote moorland location, but the vicarage had always been in Kettleshulme. However, from the 1890s there seemed to be problems in appointing a vicar or curate, so services were usually conducted by the vicar of Rainow.  In 1911, Canon Broughton, probably anxious to attract a new incumbent, commissioned Newton to rebuild the vicarage, which he did in a suitably plain style in keeping with the surrounding buildings. There are two date plaques – “SLW 1866” and “REB 1912”. SLW was Stephen Lea Wilson, vicar of Prestbury from 1858 to 1889; and REB was Reginald Edmund Broughton, vicar of Prestbury from 1889 to 1929. Pevsner incorrectly gives the later date as 1919.

It seems unlikely the new building was ever used as a vicarage. First there was the Great War, and then in 1921, it was decided to divide the parish and merge each half with neighbouring parishes. The Saltersford half joined Rainow and the Kettleshulme half joined Taxal over the county border in Derbyshire. The vicarage became privately owned and was known as “Glebe House”, a name it still retains. [Richard Fletcher]

Reference           Buildings of England: Cheshire page 418