Church of St Augustine
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106230
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106230
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE, FRONT STREET
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 AUGUSTINE, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alston Moor
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 71835 46536
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/08/2016
NY 7146
24/52
ALSTON MOOR
FRONT STREET, ALSTON (North side)
Church of St Augustine
G.V.
II
Parish Church. 1870 by J.W. Walton, spire 1886 by G. D. Oliver, replacing 1770
church by Smeaton on medieval site. Ashlar with plinth, buttresses and moulded
eaves. Welsh slate roofs with apex crosses to stone copings. Nave with south
aisle; lower chancel. South porch under offset 3-stage tower with corner
pinnacles. Early English style with lancet and plate tracery windows, those to
nave clerestory 3-light under segmental arches. Trumeau separates shouldered
porch doors with marble nook shafts. Tympanum of Christ in Majesty. Interior:
4-bay nave has arcade of squat polished granite piers with foliate caps. 3-bay
chancel with painted 5-panel reredos. East window designed by Wooldridge and
made by Powell. Font in nave has round bowl on central stem with detached
marble shafts. Derwentwater clock on west wall presented 1767 and restored
1978. Wrought-iron weather vane now inside, dated 1770.
Listing NGR: NY7183546536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73112
- 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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