Church of St Philip and St James
CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232516
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip and St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232516
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Philip and St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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 PHILIP AND ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tow Law
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 12328 38941
Details
TOW LAW CHURCH LANE NZ 13 NW (East end)
23/311 Church of St. Philip and St. James GV II Parish church. Circa 1867-1869 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Roughly-squared coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings; stone spire. Nave with west porch and south-west tower; chancel with north vestry. Decorated style. Full-width porch has two 2-centred-arched doors, boarded and with elaborate hinges, under continuous drip string which is a sill string for 3 central lancets. Wide buttresses with steeply-coped setback under gabled coping of pent roof. Large wheel window above and octagonal tower at right. Tower has buttresses on alternate sides, with slit windows to stair and shouldered-arched belfry openings, under octagonal spire with lucarnes.
3-bay nave has paired lancets in first 2 bays, lancet and 2-light window in third; 2-light window and lancet in chancel. 5-light east window under 8-foiled roundel. Steeply-pitched roof has stone cross finials; weather-cock finial on spire.
Interior: coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. King-post nave roof with arch-braced scissor trusses on stone-corbelled brackets; chancel has panelled wood barrel vault, 2-centred chancel arch of 2 orders, the inner on short shafts with clasping rings. Windows have wide 2-centred rere-arches. Similarly-shaped organ arch and drip-mould over trefoil-headed vestry doorway. Full-width painted panel below east window; wood-panelled chancel. Unusual rood screen composed of varnished applied cones and other fruit. Glass includes east window in memory of M.H. Simpson, first vicar; north windows signed E. Smyth Sc. (c.1945) and Stanley Murray Scott 1965. Other windows original leaded lights in rectangular and lozenge patterns. Stone pulpit with open balustrade and marble shafts; square stone font on pedestal and 4 shafts. High-quality doors and original fittings, with stencilled felted draught curtains to inner doors.
Listing NGR: NZ1232838941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407895
- 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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