Church of St Edwin
CHURCH OF ST EDWIN, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115562
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edwin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDWIN, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115562
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edwin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDWIN, THE GREEN
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 EDWIN, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- High Coniscliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 22578 15234
Details
NZ 2215 HIGH CONISCLIFFE THE GREEN (South side, off) 18/122 Church of St. Edwin 20/3/67 GV II* Parish church. Circa 1170 west end of nave and western part of south nave wall; early-mid C13 nave, chancel and tower; c14 tower parapet and spire; C15 vestry; c.1860 porch rebuilt in 1964. Much rebuilding and refenestration in 1844 and during later C19. Coursed rubble; some rebuilt sections in snecked sandstone; green slate roofs. West tower with spire; nave with north aisle and north porch; chancel with north vestry. 4-stage tower with loops and 2-light pointed bell openings. Embattled parapet, on corbel table, with corner pinnacles. Thin octagonal stone spire. Largely-rebuilt nave, north aisle and chancel; long and low proportions. Mid C19 openings except where stated. 5-bay nave. Aisle has 4 lancets and gabled porch at west. 4 restored square clerestory windows with trefoiled heads under hoodmoulds. 2-order round-arched door within porch (moved from south side c.1870) has beakhead and moulded capitals, shafts missing ; carved relief of Agnus Dei above. South wall: narrow original window at west; 4 lancets to east; east section of wall breaks forward, possibly indicating an earlier aisle. Chancel: original lancet on north wall; lancets and Priest's door on south; chamfered plinth, sill band and 3 stepped lancets on east end. Low-pitched roofs hidden by parapet. 2-storey vestry: 2-light mullioned window and loop, with old iron grille, on east; projecting embattled parapet. Plastered interior. Shouldered tower doorway; medieval ladder stair. Grave slab with interlace used as lintel in third stage of tower. North arcade of 5 pointed, double-chamfered arches on squat circular piers and keeled responds with moulded octagonal capitals and bases; hoodmould with broach stops. Pointed chancel arch, with 2 chamfered and moulded orders and nailhead hoodmould, on keeled responds with foliage capitals. Round-arched chamfered doorway to vestry with chamfered fireplace and aumbry. Fitting and monuments: C13 font; aedicular wall monument to Sir Francis Bowes and family 1684 on north chancel wall; some C17 choir stalls with poppyheads and similar reading desk; 1973 south window by L.C. Evetts. Several C16 and C17 memorial floor slabs, one with brass. (Rev. J.F. Hodgson, "Coniscliffe Church", Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Volume I, 1868-70).
Listing NGR: NZ2257815234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North, Vol. 1, (1868-1870)
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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