Church of St Cuthbert
CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240381
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240381
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Cuthbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST CUTHBERT, CHURCH BANK
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 CUTHBERT, CHURCH BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 09289 52608
Details
NZ 05 SE CONSETT CHURCH BANK
(South side) Benfieldside 5/28 (inset) Church of St. 6/6/51 Cuthbert (Formerly listed as St Cuthbert's Church) GV II
Parish church. 1849-50 by John Dobson; addition of south aisle, choir vestry and organ 1881-6 by J.W. Walton Wilson; site and £450 given by Thomas Wilson of Shotley Hall, remainder by public subscription. Coursed squared sandstone with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings; roofs of graduated thick purple slate and Welsh slate, with stone gable copings. Aligned north-south. Aisled nave with ritual north-west porch tower and south-west choir vestry; chancel with north vestry and south organ chamber. Early English style. Tower has drip-string over boarded double doors with elaborate hinges in double-shafted, many-moulded 2-centred arch; slit window and clock above; set-back belfry with high 2-light openings; full-height clasping buttresses with offsets; broach spire on nail- head corbel table has lucarnes and wrought-iron finial. Lancet windows, paired in north aisle under corbel table, triple in east and paired in west fronts, with vesica over central west buttress; large vesica also in south-west vestry; buttresses, 4 on east front; north vestry has projecting stack with offsets and round chimney. Steeply-pitched roof with gable copings on roll-moulded kneelers. Boot-scrapers flank tower door. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings; arch-braced nave roof on alternate corbels and shafted corbels; scissor-truss chancel roof on corbelled wall-posts. 4-bay arcades have double-chamfered arches on round piers with octagonal plinths and capitals; continuous drip moulds. Many-moulded chancel arch on half-octagonal pilasters and corbelled Frosterley marbel shafts, with capitals recording dates of building and enlargement; head-stopped dripmould over. 2-bay chancel arcade has carved brackets and corbels. West bay has high lancet to choir vestry, and balconied doorway to first tower floor. Glass in south aisle signed by Percy and Bacon bros., ll, Newman Street, London; one medallioned window in memory of Thomas Siddell, veterinary surgeon died 1855 in the Crimean War. Tiled chancel floor, flagged nave floor. Brass foundation plaque dated 1849 names John Dobson architect. Roll-moulded square- ended pews with Roman numerals.
Listing NGR: NZ0928952608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438635
- 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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