Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240887
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240887
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, FRONT 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 MARGARET, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18763 55478
Details
NZ 1855 STANLEY FRONT STREET (North side) Tanfield 18/170 Church of St.Margaret 19/7/50 GV II Parish church. Nave dated 1749, tower dated 1853, chancel dated 1864, remodelling dated 1878, the latter by Austin, Johnson and Hicks (brass panel in tower describes it as 'remodelled, restored, new seated and new organ'). 1853 and 1864 by public subscription with large contributions from John Eden of Beamish Park, and James Joicey and Company, coal owners. Sandstone ashlar with plinth and quoins; graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings; Welsh slate roof on north tower vestry. West tower with north vestry; aisled nave; chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Tower has double boarded doors, with elaborate hinges and lift-scutcheon latch, under fanlight in moulded, shafted round-headed arch; inscription with date above; tall shouldered light above, and 2-light shouldered belfry openings under corbel table and battlemented parapet; west front of tower has shafted round- headed window with paired round-headed lights and plate tracery; clock above. 4-bay nave has 2-light square-headed Perpendicular windows(replacing C18 round- headed windows, of which traces remain) and impost band; lancets in 3-bay chancel, with 3 stepped east lancets; buttresses between bays, angle to tower and chancel, with setbacks. Date panel on nave below impost band at left, and sundial with gnomon above. Roof continuous over aisles, with stone cross finials, and wrought iron vane on tower. Wrought iron foot-scraper. Interior: painted plaster above panelled dado; painted ashlar dressings; panelled chancel; panelled flat nave roof on corbelled wall-posts and low- pitched panelled chancel roof, with Tudor-flower freizes. Triple-chamfered 2-centred arcades springing without capitals from round columns; similar style chancel and tower arches. Perpendicular style rood screen; Communion rail on fat twist balusters; carved wood altar in Gothic style with 3 medallions and 4 apostle figures. Romanesque piscina in north wall. Gothic organ 1907 by Walker. Large raised font, of Frosterley, Devonian and white marble with octagonal bowl on pedestal and 4 shafts; commemorates Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. Perpendicular-style font cover inscribed to T. Duncombe Eden, died 1899. Geometrical glass with figures, in chancel, dated 1864; later glass in aisles, one window signed with mark of mailed hand and ribbon. Monuments include C17 heraldic slabs to members of Tempest and Ripon families; white marble mourning figure and sarcophagus with portrait medallion, on north aisle wall, to Dorothea Melden Eden, by Bedford of London; broken column in south aisle to George Rippon by Jopling of Newcastle.
Listing NGR: NZ1876355478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439450
- 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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