CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA

CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA, CORNHILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208179
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA, CORNHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208179
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST COLUMBA, CORNHILL ROAD

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 COLUMBA, CORNHILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 39001 58585

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ3858 CORNHILL ROAD, Southwick 920-1/8/286 (East side) Church of St Columba

GV II

Parish church. 1888-90. By C Hodgson Fowler. Brick with red sandstone dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel, E apse, NE organ chamber and vestry, S porch, W porches and baptistry. Basilica style. EXTERIOR: plinth to full-height E apse and lower apse to S chancel aisle; semi-conical roofs. 8-bay nave with continuous chancel has E and W chancel and nave gables have shallow buttresses continuous with Lombard frieze; N and S elevations have shallow pillars defining bays, the aisles with single lights under drip-moulds, the clerestory with paired lights under drip-string which continues around W angles and over large W roundel. Round-headed windows have sloping sills and are recessed in plain surrounds. Pent W porches have 3 windows flanking boarded doors under moulded lintels, and one window beside each door in central section, blank where baptistry apse with conical roof rises through porch. INTERIOR shows full-length arcades with plain round arches on round piers with cushion capitals; roof queen-post trusses on horizontal corbels. Complete scheme of decoration by James Eadie Reid comprises painted sanctuary apse with groups of early English saints, biblical scenes above high panelled dado along both aisles, and stained glass in many windows, some signed and dated JER 1905. Marble Communion rail panelled in cream, green and red; marble mosaic sanctuary floor includes Frosterley `marble'. Square dark marble font with Romanesque carved patterns in W baptistry. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 16-17).

Listing NGR: NZ3900158585

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Legacy System number:: 391433
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Corfe, T, Milburn, G, Buildings and Beliefs, (1984), 16-17

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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.