Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234464
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234464
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MAIN 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:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Sunderland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 21204 31453
Details
NORTH SUNDERLAND MAIN STREET NU 23 SW (South side) 9/183 Church of St. Paul 22.12.69 GV II Parish church. 1834 by Anthony Salvin. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Nave with bellcote and apsidal chancel. Romanesque style. West door has columns with cushion capitals and multi-moulded arch. Flanking one-light windows and string course rising over door and windows. Round-headed window over door flanked by trapezoidal recesses with colonettes at sides. 4-bay nave has one-light round-headed windows and string course which rises over each window. Buttresses between each bay. Chancel has priest's door with roll-moulded arch and cushion capitals, similar windows and corbel table. Gabled roof and gabled double bellcote with roll-moulded arches and cushion capitals Interior: Canted, plastered barrel-vaulted nave ceiling and round barrel- vaulted chancel ceiling. Screen and elaborate octagonal pulpit of 1915 with twisted Ionic colonettes and figures of saints in niches.
Listing NGR: NU2120431453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410380
- 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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