Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240951
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240951
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, NORTH 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 THOMAS, NORTH ROAD
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 16174 52598
Details
NZ 15 SE STANLEY NORTH ROAD (West side) Annfield Plain 7/190 Church of St.Thomas 19/7/50 (Formerly listed as St Thomas Church, Hare Law)
Parish church. 1840 by G. Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south porch; chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Early English style. Steeply-gabled porch contains moulded 2-centred shafted arch with recessed chamfered surround to boarded double doors; deep gable coping has roll-moulded finial. Lancet windows, mostly paired in 3-bay nave, have drip moulds and sill string, stepped to sill of 3 stepped east lancets in lower set-back chancel, and continuing around chamfered coped buttresses, clasping at corners and with octagonal spirelets on east and west corners. 3 stepped west lancets. Stone angelus cross. Trefoils in nave gable peaks. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado; panelled chancel dado and reredos; roof trusses have queen and king posts and roll- moulded corbels; chancel has collared trusses on similar corbels. 2-centred chancel arch with chamfered inner arch on roll-moulded corbels; richly moulded corbels support organ arch; pierced panel in west organ chamber wall. Diagonally-boarded west gallery on cast iron columns. East window second world war memorial by George Cooper Abbs. Octagonal stone font with pierced ogee cover, the gift of Dr. A. Thorp of Durham. White and black marble monument of Thomas and Mary Fenwick, died 1850 and 1856, with open book and anchor in low relief. C20 west addition of hall not of interest.
Listing NGR: NZ1617452598
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439549
- 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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