Congregational Church and Sunday School
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210104
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210104
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Congregational Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET
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.
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:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnard Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05150 16447
Details
BARNARD CASTLE
NZ0516SW HALL STREET 770-1/6/76 (South side) 22/02/73 Congregational Church and Sunday School
GV II
Congregational Church, now United Reformed Church, with school attached. Church dated 1836, with 1978 internal alterations; school mid C19. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and chimney. Ritual east at south. Nave with west lobby, east vestry and school attached. EXTERIOR: gabled front to Hall Street has central wide double 6-panel door and semicircular overlight with intersecting glazing bars recessed in tooled projecting stone surround with impost blocks and keystone. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to flanking 30-pane stair sashes with glazing bars; similar window above. Oval stone date panel in gable has well-cut letters - figure 1 missing. Roof has gable coping on moulded kneelers, and small rear chimney. Elevation to Queen Street has 2 similar sashes to ground floor and 2 to gallery. Rear school extension of one storey; 2 similar windows in gable to Queen Street with moulded gable kneelers and corniced ridge chimney. INTERIOR: stairs at each side of entrance lobby; nave with blocked gallery on 3 sides; east pulpit. Curved gallery has reeded pilasters to panelled parapet and is supported on cast-iron pillars. Ceiling altered to rest on gallery parapet and form a keeled shape. Pulpit raised on boarded platform with blind Y-tracery in wooden east arcade. Handrail mostly renewed on renewed cast-iron balusters. Pine pews have horizontal boarding and panelled ends with umbrella racks. Panelled dado, part raised and fielded, and shaped boarded screens flanking two 6-panel east doors from lobby. Wall memorial panel to Revd B Wilkinson died 28 December 1893, pastor for five and a half years.
Listing NGR: NZ0515016447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388706
- 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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