Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE DENE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1231690
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE DENE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1231690
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE DENE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, THE DENE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton-le-Dale
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 40797 48034
Details
NZ 44 NW DALTON-LE-DALE THE DENE (South side)
4/4 Church of St. Andrew 20.2.67 II*
Church. Romanesque with mainly C13 features. Extensive restoration by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1907 when bellcote, porch and vestry were added. Snecked rubble. C20 Welsh slate roof. Aisleless nave and continuous chancel, south porch and north vestry. 2-bay chancel has pointed-arched priest's door and trefoiled low-side window in south wall; plate-tracery window in north wall to east of vestry and trefoiled low-side window to west. Buttressed east end with 3 stepped lancets in hollow-chamfered reveals. 4-bay nave has pilaster-buttressed bay divisions and tall lancets under hoodmoulds with trefoiled rear-arches. Sculptured fragments built into masonry include part of a Saxon cross-shaft and a C17 sundial. South door within porch is set in a roll-moulded pointed arch of 2 orders, shafts missing. North wall has chamfered plinth and a late Romanesque doorway of 3 orders with chevron and worn scalloped capitals, shafts missing. Single tall lancet in west end and bellcote above.
Interior: gutted and plastered. Panelled nave ceiling, shallow wagon roof to chancel; minimal wooden chancel screen. Recumbent alabaster effigy of Sir William Bowes, died 1420, in armour on decorated chest tomb, is now set against a 4-centred recess possibly for Easter sepulchre. Mutilated female effigy in front of low arch in north wall. Aumbry and trefoiled piscina in chancel south wall. Late medieval round font with floral border on replaced stem. Relief Roman numerals on north wall said to be remnants of a ray sundial.
Listing NGR: NZ4079748034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 406877
- 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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