Church of St Paul the Apostle
CHURCH OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041422
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul the Apostle
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041422
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul the Apostle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Choppington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25501 83942
Details
WANSBECK CHOPPINGTON
NZ 28 SE
5/12 Church of St. Paul
the Apostle (formerly
18/10/49 listed as St Paul's
Church)
GV II
Parish Church, 1866. Snecked stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof
with stone cresting. Unaisled 4-bay nave with south porch; chancel with canted
apse, south vestry and later north organ chamber. C13 style.
Nave has stepped angle buttresses and sill string. South porch has boarded
double doors under pointed arch, with hoodmould and slit above, in steeply-
pitched coped gable on moulded kneelers; circular window in each return. North
and south nave walls have 2-light windows with pierced circles in spandrels;
at west end 2 tall lancets flanking buttress carrying bellcote with pointed
arch and ring-cross finial. Chancel apse has small lancets with walls battered
out; below sill string; and ornamental ridge cresting. Vestry shows boarded
door, single-light windows and tall truncated stack.
Interior: Plastered. Unmoulded pointed arches to chancel and organ chamber,
cusped aumbry and sedile in sanctuary. Hammer-beam roof with arch braces and
upper crown posts; iron tie-rod with scrolly brackets below each truss.
Panelled reredos as war memorial.
Listing NGR: NZ2550183942
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235883
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33838
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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