Christchurch Durham
Christchurch Durham, Claypath, DH1 1RH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159380
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Durham
- Statutory Address:
- Christchurch Durham, Claypath, DH1 1RH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159380
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch Durham
- Statutory Address 1:
- Christchurch Durham, Claypath, DH1 1RH
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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:
- Christchurch Durham, Claypath, DH1 1RH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27565 42683
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 February 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
NZ 2742 NE
10/57
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE
CLAYPATH (North side)
Christchurch Durham
(Formerly listed as United Reformed Church)
GV
II
Congregational, United Reformed, Church at time of listing. 1885-6 by J.T. Gradon. Snecked sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with decorative red ridge tiles. Aligned north-south. Decorated style. Elaborate hinges to paired, two-centred-arched doors on street front in moulded arches with central pink granite column. Dog-tooth moulding to arches and to quatrefoil window over, set in shallow gabled panel with fleur-de-lis finial. Large five-light window above has head-stopped dripmould. Three cusped lancets at left of door and one at right. At extreme right, tower of four stages has two-centred-arched door facing forecourt and two-light window facing street in first stage; upper stages have blind arrow slits and three small lancets beneath broaching of octagonal belfry. Two-light louvred belfry openings under frieze; stone belfry spire with decorated bands on gargoyled base. Six lancets in north aisle; seven roundels to clerestory.
Piers, walls and gate in front: two square piers in front: broached to octagonal domed coping; cast iron lamp-holder finials. Dwarf wall linking baptistry and piers. Gothic-style iron gate at left to passage to rear. Rear has area railings of wrought iron with curved pointed heads.
Interior: painted plaster with boarded dado; crocketed cast iron columns; stone-corbelled brackets supporting king- and queen-post roof. West gallery now part of inserted first floor. Crocketed capitals to nave arcades with delicate spandrels or iron circles. Gothic style wide pulpit at east.
Listing NGR: NZ2756542683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110105
- 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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