Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CRESSWELL VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042146
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CRESSWELL VILLAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042146
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CRESSWELL VILLAGE
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 BARTHOLOMEW, CRESSWELL VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cresswell
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 29069 93326
Details
CRESSWELL CRESSELL VILLAGE NZ 29 SE 8/7 Church of St. Bartholomew 24.9.85 GV II
Parish Church, 1836.
Stone with ashlar dressings, all tooled and margined; slate roof. Aisleless nave with south-west porch and short chancel. Romanesque style. Roll-moulded plinth. Round-arched, moulded doorway in porch has trefoiled niche, with Virgin and Child, above; gable cross. Openings round-arched except for 3 trefoil-headed windows in eastern nave bays and porch west wall. Short buttress between west end windows and quatrefoil above. Double bellcote on gable end. chancel windows roll-moulded, the east end pair under trefoiled roundel, both under hoodmoulds with carved stops. Eaves corbel table, with grotesque masks in porch and chancel.
Interior: gallery stair, with stick balusters and vase newel, in west lobby. Lobby doors and gallery front have linenfold panelling. Round chancel arch with dogtooth on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Royal Arms of William IV above. Braced king-and-queen-post roof. East window glass by Thomas Willement: medallions "in the style of c,1200".
The church was built for the Baker-Cresswell family of Cresswell Hall, whose family pew at first occupied most of the chancel.
Listing NGR: NZ2906993326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238152
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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