Church of St Mary Magdalene
CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BROOMSIDE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159108
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BROOMSIDE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159108
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Magdalene
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, BROOMSIDE LANE
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 MAGDALENE, BROOMSIDE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Belmont
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 30397 43615
Details
BELMONT BROOMSIDE LANE NZ 34 SW (North side) 7/11 Church of St. 10/5/67 Mary Magdalene GV II
Parish church. 1857 by William Butterfield. Minor late C19 alterations; 1901 vestry by C.H. Fowler. Coursed squared rubble with ashlar dressings; plinth to vestry. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. 4-bay nave with north porch; 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Steps up to boarded north door, with leaf-decorated strap hinges, in deeply-moulded 2-centred-arched surround, under wood-bracketed castslide roof. Ovolo-moulded cusped ogee tracery in windows, mostly 2-light, with alternate-block surrounds and sloping sills. South-west nave window more elaborate and with dripmould. Decorated 3-light east window has beakhead-stopped dripmould; west window has plate tracery with 3 ogee-headed lights. Short buttresses, and continuous stepped sill string, to chancel, vestry and north nave. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced roof with collars and short king-posts, having 2 tiers of thin wood arches between each collar and apex, and bolted arch braces; tension rods stirrup-fastened to king-posts. Deep dripmould over high chamfered chancel arch with inner ovolo-moulded arch on shafts with fillets. Similar dripmould to vestry door. Ovolo-moulded window surrounds with double-chamfered sill steps. 1892 reredos by Butterfield. Early C20 pews by Thompson of Masham. Chancel panelling with traceried arch over sedilia. East window dated and signed 1923 by W. Glasby London.
Listing NGR: NZ3039743615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110000
- 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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