Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042191
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1042191
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Branxton
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 89211 37495
Details
BRANXTON BRANXTON NT 83 NE 9/2 Church of St. Paul 21.9.51 II
Parish church. Late C12 or early C13. Largely rebuilt 1849. Snecked rhyolite with sandstone dressings. Nave, chancel and north-west tower. Romanesque style. Five-bay nave entirely of 1849. Gabled porch to left holds round-headed door in chevron-moulded surround with two orders of columns and cushion capitals. Small round-headed windows with chamfered sill bands and drip stones. Lower chancel in old masonry has no side windows. C19 east window with shafts, cushion capitals and roll-moulded arch. Tower has 2-light bell openings separated by shaft with cushion capital. Stone pyramidal roof.
Interior: C12 chancel arch, the arch rebuilt in C13 in pointed form, semicircular responds and slimmer outer orders of columns on east and west side; scalloped capitals and moulded bases with spurs. Steeply-pointed arch, the main arch chamfered with broach stops, the outer arch simply chamfered. C17 altar rails with fat turned balusters. Nave has open timber roof with arched braces on stone corbels.
Northumberland County History Vol. XI.
Listing NGR: NT8921137495
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237969
- 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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