Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1140012
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, THE GREEN
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- Date:
- 1999-08-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/00792/10
- Rights:
- © Mr Ray Wallace Thompson. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1140012
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ4427722134
Details
NZ 4422 SW NORTON THE GREEN
(West side)
20/204
Parish Church of
19.1.51 St Mary the Virgin
GV I
Much of the early Cll church remains. It was extended in the late C12,
improved in the C15 and restored and enlarged in 1877. Two-bay crenellated
chancel with mock Tudor 3-light tracery and placing earlier lancets and sedilia.
Three-light perpendicular East window having wood mould and head stags. Late
C19 Vestry on North side. Squat crenellated tower with triangular headed open-
ings on each side, originally below ridge line; upper part of tower later with
2-light louvred C15 foiled square headed windows. Cruciform plan; Saxon cross-
ing arches, and masonry in most of tower and North transept makes this the only
evidence of a Saxon cross plan in County Durham. North transept has an
inserted 1877 window. Three bay crenellated nave with clerestory - C15 - and
aisles (1877):- Six 3-light windows divided into pairs by wall buttresses.
The West end also a 1877 restoration with a 5-light perpendicular style window.
At the West end are 3 finely inscribed C18 tomb slabs: (Gregory, Taylor &
Hendry). The interior has, in the chancel, remains of the transitional/Early
English East end shelf arrangement. This is also visible on South wall where
the undercut chevron of the sedilia arch remains. A line of the North wall
may indicate a former vault. The crossing arches are wide with voussoirs fol-
lowing the curve. Fragments of an Anglo-Saxon cross in the South East pier.
A splendid C14 effigy near South-West pier, probably Roger Fulbrooke, died 1337,
whose sarcophagus from Grindon Abbey is outside Thorpe Thewles church; in the
later C16, Sir William Blakiston had his own arms carved on the effigy's
shield. Nave with late C12 pointed arcade, round piers with octagonal caps;
an ornate decorated foliate cap of earlier C12 satin North-West pier at West
end of Nave. Central South clerestory window has a lintel made from a tomb
head. In the 1877 porch are fragments of reused chevron and billet moulding
and the reset, headless body of female figure. Modern woodwork (pews and
pulpit and rails) by "Mousey" Thompson.
Listing NGR: NZ4427722134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59342
- 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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