Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160127
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160127
- Date first listed:
- 14-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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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:
- 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.
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