CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160127
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sep-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winston
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 14350 16873
Details
NZ 11 NW WINSTON WINSTON VILLAGE
5/61 Church of St.Andrew
14.9.66
I
Parish church. Mid C13, restored 1848 by John Dobson. Mid C13 sandstone rubble
with roughly-dressed quoins; mid C19 dressed sandstone; renewed Welsh slate
roofs. South-west tower, nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel with
north vestry. Transitional and Early English style.
Tower of 1848 in two stages: buttressed square-plan base and octagonal belfry;
spirelet of sandstone flags with ball finial. Nave mainly rebuilt 1848: 4 bays
with chamfered plinth; south aisle has 2 stepped buttresses and 4 lancets under
individual hoodmoulds; north wall has medieval stonework, 3 restored lancets
and a blocked door at west end; mid Cl9 west front has 2 lancets with vesica
above and stepped clasping left buttress with pinnacle. Steeply-pitched roof
has coped gables with shaped kneelers. Mid C13 2-bay chancel of large proportions;
2 lancets to each bay; chamfered plinth and sill band with Cl9 buttress division
on south wall; left bay of south wall has blocked priest's door under shouldered
lintel and narrow round-headed window above with roll moulding. East end has 2
stepped clasping buttresses, low central buttress and 3 stepped lancets. Low-
pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers. South porch of 1848 has
pointed arch of 2 orders with attached colonnettes. North vestry of 1848 has
east door under shouldered lintel.
Interior: Nave has south aisle arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches under
hoodmoulds; keeled responds; cylindrical pier with octagonal base and moulded
circular cap divides eastern bays; second bay from west is a section of solid
wall; arch-braced roof of 1848. Chancel: continuous roll moulding at same height
as external sill band is raised over blocked priest's door; pointed double-
chamfered chancel arch of 1848; piscina in south wall is a cusped, trefoil-headed
niche with chamfered arris, roll moulding, nutmegornament and a broken stop;
round rear-arches to lancets; King-post roof of 1848.
Fittings: choir stalls have C17 carved poppyhead bench ends; font, possibly C14
and later re-cut, is circular bowl on cylindrical shaft with low relief of
fighting dragons, tracery and flower motifs round rim.
Monuments: fragment of cross-head (possibly pre-Conquest); large medieval grave
cover with foliated cross at west end of nave; 3 brasses in floor; early C18
oval marble memorial tablet, in pedimented aedicule, to the parents of Peter
Lancaster, Rector, in south wall of chancel.
Listing NGR: NZ1435216877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111152
- 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.
End of official listing
