Christ Church
CHRIST CHURCH, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232272
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232272
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STATION ROAD
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:
- CHRIST CHURCH, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 41065 49827
Details
NZ 44 NW SEAHAM STATION ROAD (North side)
4/39 Christ Church
II
Parish church. 1857 by P.C.Hardwick for Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry. South aisle added 1862. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs. Aisled nave, chancel, south porch and north vestry. Gothic Revival style with Geometrical tracery.
Chamfered stone plinth. 4-bay nave has angle-buttressed west end with 5-light window in double-chamfered reveal. Tall, 2-stage bellcote with 3 lancets surmounted by cross. Aisles have groups of 2 and 3-light trefoil-headed lancets. Projecting gabled south porch has flanking stepped buttresses, doorway in pointed arch of 3 orders under hoodmould and group of 3 quatrefoils under pointed hoodmould in gable. Slightly lower, single-bay chancel has diagonally-buttressed east end with 5-light window under pointed hoodmould. Projecting north vestry has 3-light window with stepped, trefoil-headed lancets.
Interior: spacious; nave arcade has 3 chamfered, pointed arches on octagonal piers with moulded caps and bases, smaller pointed arch at west end; waggon roof to nave has closely spaced braces; tall double-chamfered, pointed chancel arch on 3 clustered columns with moulded semicircular-plan cap; panelled barrel roof to chancel.
Listing NGR: NZ4106549827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407597
- 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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