Church of St Mary the Virgin
CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, BLACKHILLS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158895
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, BLACKHILLS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158895
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, BLACKHILLS ROAD
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 MARY THE VIRGIN, BLACKHILLS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horden
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 44214 41110
Details
NZ 44 SW HORDEN BLACKHILLS ROAD (North side)
2/22 Church of St. Mary the Virgin
II
Parish church. 1913 by J.D. Potts and Son. Textured concrete blocks and graduated green slate roof. Cruciform plan: aisleless nave with western narthex and flanking vestries; north and south transepts with crossing tower; chancel with south chapel and north organ chamber and vestry. Gothic style with lancets and Geometrical-tracery windows. Tall chamfered plinth;tall stepped buttresses with gablets divide recessed bays with eaves corbel tables. 5-bay nave has paired lancets; west end has single-storey narthex with 3 lancets, canted corners with pointed-arched doorways and gabled projecting vestries with paired 2-light windows; gabled twin bellcote. 2-bay transepts have clasping buttresses and paired 3-light windows with vesica above in gabled north and south faces; pointed- arched doorways to western returns. Broad square crossing tower has 3 lancets to each face and buttressed bay divisions; pyramidal roof has slightly-swept corbelled eaves. 2-bay chancel has taller apsidal east end with buttressed bays, each with a single lancet, except for blank centre bay; elaborate Lombard frieze at eaves. 2-bay south chapel has paired lancets and a 2-light plate-tracery window to east return. 2-storey organ chamber has chimney on east gable and lower square vestry to east. Roofs, of moderate pitch, have large shaped kneelers and coped gable parapets.
Interior has walls of red engineering brick with stone dressings; crossing tower supported on low, moulded pointed arches; large octagonal stone pulpit and font flanking west end of chancel; west end of each transept has glazed internal porch; panelled, slightly-pointed wagon roofs with exposed tie beams.
Listing NGR: NZ4421441110
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109434
- 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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