College Of St Cuthbert Library With Corridor And Belfry Attached

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

ESH USHAW NZ 2143 14/26 College of St.

Cuthbert: library with corridor and belfry attached

GV II

Library with corridor and belfry attached. 1849-51 by C. and J. Hansom.

Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; roofs of graduated Lakeland slate with stone gable copings. Decorated style. L-plan library with corridor set back at left. 2-storey, 10-bay library and one-storey, 5-bay corridor linked by 2-storey, one-bay stair hall. Tudor-Gothic style.

Main block has square-headed 3-light ground-floor windows and paired first- floor windows with low-2-centred heads, all with transoms and tracery; bays defined by tall buttresses with one offset and gablet coping. Left and right gabled returns have 3 buttresses, the central lower, and 2-light ground-floor windows; 5-light west window over buttress with niche and statue; 4-light east window; trefoils in gable peaks; stone cross finials. Rear stair wing has 2-centred-arched windows under dripmoulds; corridor has paired 2-centred-arched windows flanking gabled porch, and rear belfry spire.

Interior: dogleg stair has stone balustrade, with pierced quatrefoils. High- quality glass in gable and stair windows. Library has Gothic bookcases and panelled ceiling on arch-braced bracketed trusses over carved wood frieze.

Some painted glass in corridor windows and some original lattice-leading with coloured glass borders.

Designed to complement the then Pugin chapel at the opposite end of the main college block; now replaced by Church of St. Cuthbert (q.v.).

Listing NGR: NZ2195743723

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0486 IOE Records taken by Bob Cottrell; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project