CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, FRONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231459
Date first listed:: 29-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, FRONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231459
Date first listed:: 29-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, FRONT STREET

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 MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS, FRONT STREET

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stanhope
National Grid Reference:: NZ 02661 36866

Details

STANHOPE FRONT STREET NZ 0236 (South side, off) Frosterley 40/197 Church of St. Michael and 29.6.71 All Angels GV II

Parish church. 1869 by G R Street. Dressed sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. West tower; nave with north aisle and north porch; chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Decorated style. Gabled porch has boarded door with delicate wrought- iron hinges in 2-centred arch under flower-stopped drip-mould. Tower has roll- moulded plinth under tall 2-light west window; 2-light, 2-centred-arched bell openings in second stage have scalloped louvres under tracery. Corbel table supports tall stone-flagged broach spire with 4 lucarnes. Tall weather-cock finial. Gabled north stair-turret. Tracery in 3-light nave and 2-light aisle windows, and in 3-light organ window; cusped 2-light windows in vestry and in chancel; and wide square-headed sanctuary window containing tracery. Sill string, stepped up from wide buttress at east end of nave towards sanctuary, and down under 3-light east window flanked by buttresses. Moulded rain-water heads; wrought-iron bars and rails with trident finials over windows.

Interior: sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; arch-braced collar truss roof, with cusped struts above collar in nave. North arcade has 4 chamfered roll-moulded arches on round piers with moulded capitals; west arch springs from wall, east has mouldings continuous from pilaster. Chamfered wide chancel arch with figure-stopped dripmould has inner corbelled moulded arch; tall tower arch with continuous triple chamfers. All arches 2-centred. Wide organ arch. Windows have chamfered rere arches. Chancel has 2-light north aumbry and south sedilia with tracery; south sanctuary light. Chancel floor of medieval-style tiles in red, black, glazed green and slip patterns; nave aisles of plain red, black and cream tiles.

Listing NGR: NZ0266136866

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Legacy System number:: 406521
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.