CHURCH OF ST MARY

CHURCH OF ST MARY, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159348
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FRONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159348
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FRONT STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, FRONT STREET

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sherburn Village
National Grid Reference:: NZ 31737 42252

Details

SHERBURN FRONT STREET NZ 34 SW (South side) 3/78 Church of St. Mary II Parish church. 1872 by Austin and Johnson. Squared, rock-faced stone in narrow courses with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Aisled nave, south aisle continuing across west bay of chancel; chancel with organ chamber/vestry on north; tower and spire in angle between vestry and north aisle. Early English and Geometrical styles. Tall 3-stage tower: square-plan lower stage with pointed north door; small broaches at base of octagonal second stage; octagonal belfry in ashlar has trefoil-headed bell openings under linked hoodmoulds, parapet with angle pinnacles and squat spire. Tall 3-bay nave: pointed 3-light window in diagonally-buttressed west end; moulded south doorway in west bay inside aisle; small paired lancets in clerestory; steep roof with coped gables. Buttressed 4-bay south aisle with pointed doorway at west, depressed-pointed 3-light windows under hoodmoulds and pent roof. Similar 3-bay north aisle. Lower 2-bay chancel with sill string, 2-light windows on north and south and 3-light window in diagonally-buttressed east end. Steep roof with coped gable. 2-bay gable-fronted organ chamber/vestry has sill string, similar windows and steep roof. Interior: 3-bay nave arcade of hollow-chamfered, pointed arches on octagonal piers. Similar 2-order chancel arch on foliage corbels. Similar arches also to organ chamber and Lady Chapel. Trefoil-headed piscina and encaustic-tiled sanctuary floor in chancel. Nave has arch-braced king-post roof; chancel has wood barrel-vaulted roof. Organ, c.1874 by Harrison, said to be the earliest still in existence from their Durham works.

Listing NGR: NZ3173742252

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Legacy System number:: 109959
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.