Church of St Ives
CHURCH OF ST IVES, ST IVES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240559
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ives
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST IVES, ST IVES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240559
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ives
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST IVES, ST IVES 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:
- CHURCH OF ST IVES, ST IVES ROAD
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 13031 51844
Details
NZ 15 SW CONSETT ST. IVES ROAD
Church of St. Ives
6/77
4/7/86
II
Parish church. 1865-8 by C.H. Fowler; addition of north vestry porch 1879.
Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof with stone
gable copings. Aisled nave with south porch; chancel with south aisle and
north vestry. Gabled porch has side buttresses flanking open 2-centred-arched
doorway of 2 orders, with impost string; side benches; inner 2-centred arch
containing double oak doors with wrought iron hinges, crescent-shaped with leaf
terminals. Cusped lancets in aisles, paired except for groups of 3 at east end
of north and west end of south aisles; 6-foil clerestory windows in panels.
Buttressed west front has 2 tall cusped lancets under large 12-foil light;
3-light east window under drip mould; north aisle has buttress and turret at
east end. Steeply-pitched roof with copings on kneelers; tall gabled bellcote.
Lower chancel roof; stone cross finials.
Interior: coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; scissor-truss nave
roof, panelled chancel roof. 5-bay arcades have chamfered 2-centred arches,
with continuous dripmould, on round piers with square capitals. High chancel
arch on long flatcorbelled shafts has chamfered inner arch on shafts with
crocket capitals. Shouldered aisle rere-arches except for segmental arches
behind the triple lights; 2-centred rere-arches to clerestory and lancets.
Choir stalls with Gothic tracery from St. Oswald's, Gateshead; similar style
rood screen and pulpit. Altar of Caen stone. Chancel floor tiled in medieval
patterns. One step to chancel, 2 to sanctuary and 2 to altar. C20 altar in
front of screen. Tub font with many-moulded base.
Early C20 glass includes war memorial windows in south aisle showing soldiers
in battle, and Saints Hilda and Mary of Bethany; triple window in south aisle
has heraldic devices and St. Ives. Many windows clear, with original geometrical
glass.
Listing NGR: NZ1303151844
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439035
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/41789
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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