CHURCH OF ST GILES

CHURCH OF ST GILES, GILESGATE, DH1 1QQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1159991
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, GILESGATE, DH1 1QQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1159991
Date first listed:: 06-May-1952
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST GILES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST GILES, GILESGATE, DH1 1QQ

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 GILES, GILESGATE, DH1 1QQ

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 28388 42653

Details

NZ 2842 NE, 11/178

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE, GILESGATE (south side)

Church of St Giles

06.05.52

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Parish church. Part of the hospital of St Giles founded 1112 AD; north nave wall c.1114; chancel late C12; tower early C13 and early C15; c.1873 south aisle and vestry, north porch. Sandstone, most coursed and squared, with ashlar dressings; porch snecked sandstone; plinth. Roofs not visible.

EXTERIOR: Nave with south aisle and north porch; chancel with south vestry; west tower. Square tower of four stages has clasping buttresses flanking restored three-light west window with Perpendicular tracery; top stages have small square-headed window and two-light belfry openings, traceried except on east side, below pinnacled battlements. North wall of nave has three small windows, the west two round-headed and with shallow chamfered surround, that at east renewed; massive buttresses define east bay which was original chancel. Later chancel has blocked north door; shafted round-headed north and south windows with zig-zag moulding; five-light renewed east window; sill string. Buttressed south aisle has five Perpendicular three-light windows.

INTERIOR: coursed squared sandstone, raised on the north in rubble, in nave and chancel; tower rubble; C19 work painted plaster with ashlar dressings; panelled roof on painted corbels and tie beams. Octagonal columns in five-bay arcade and south organ chamber have two hollow chamfers to two-centred arches. three shafts support double-chamfered renewed chancel arch; fragment of former chancel arch on north with two head corbels. Tower arch of two orders has dog-tooth corbels. North door, re-sited from south, has cushion capitals and zig-zag moulding; deep splays to nave north windows; chancel windows have water-leaf capitals and zig-zag drip string. Blocked round-headed doors in chancel and adjacent to north door. Font in tower has large lead-lined bowl on round pedestal with cushion capital. In chancel wood effigy of John Heath of Kepier, died 1591, in armour; head rests on cock-crested helmet, feet on scroll containing two skulls with motto 'Hodie mihi cras tibi'; Heath arms on shield hanging from renewed wooden chest. Porch contains fragment of tegulated coped medieval grave-cover.

Listing NGR: NZ2838742654

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 110230
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Durham, (1928), 186-190
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: County Durham, (2003)

Legal

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