Church of St Francis of Assisi
CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044835
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Francis of Assisi
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044835
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Francis of Assisi
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI
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 FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rochester
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 77074 02336
Details
ROCHESTER BYRNESS NT 70 SE 8/72 Church of St. Francis of Assisi 10.11.51 (formerly listed as Byrness Church)
GV II
Parish church. 1796. Restored, gothicized and chancel partly rebuilt 1884 by F.R. Wilson.
Ashlar with stone slate roof. Nave, chancel, west baptistry/vestry, north porch and west bellcote.
Two-bay nave has gabled porch to right; round-headed doorway with keystone and impost blocks. C18 round-headed nave windows with C19 Decorated tracery. One-bay chancel with 2-light Decorated east window. Gabled roofs with flat coping. Round-arched bellcote with ball finial.
Interior: inner doorway dated 1796. Otherwise all of 1884. Double-chamfered chancel arch rising from corbels bearing colonettes with waterleaf capitals. South window of 1903 commemorating the men, women and children who died during. the construction of the reservoir at Catcleugh; an adjacent brass plate records the names of 64 persons who died between 1891 and 1904. Canted timber ceiling with arched braces on stone corbels and false hammerbeams bearing crosses. Sanctuary has fine encaustic tiles with geometric patterns and symbols of the Evangelists.
Listing NGR: NT7707402336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239732
- 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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