Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042179
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042179
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
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 MARY THE VIRGIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 92862 39399
Details
FORD ETAL NT 9239 16/76 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 21.9.51 GV II
Church. 1858 by William Butterfield for Lady Fitz Clarence. Pink sandstone ashlar with dressings and bands of beige sandstone. Graduated Lakeland slate roofs with cresting of tiles. Decorated style. Nave, chancel, north porch, south chapel and vestry.
Three-bay nave has porch to right with pointed-arched doorways, semicircular responds with moulded capitals and very steeply-pitched roof with foliated- cross finial. One-light cusped windows. Gabled buttress marks junction of nave and chancel. Against chancel a lean-to vestry, with trefoil-headed doorway on right return. Three-light west and east windows. Extremely high and steeply-pitched roof. Steeply-gabled bellcote between nave and chancel has a pair of cusped ogee bell openings and above an oval opening with two mouchettes and a quatrefoil. South chapel under separate and similar roof; rose window in east end; west end has 2-light window and, beneath, a doorway with shouldered lintel.
Interior: broad chancel arch with semicircular responds. Low wrought-iron screen and chancel gates. Two 3-light Decorated openings into south chapel. Piscina with Decorated open-work tracery. Wrought-iron altar rails. Nave has king-post roof. Chancel is half a scissor-brace roof and half boarded, the beams painted with stars and rosettes.
Listing NGR: NT9286239399
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238043
- 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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